Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 7 Mar 2001 14:41:20 +0100 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: Hashing and directories |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > The long-term solution for this is to create the new VM space for the > new process early, and add it to the list of mm_struct's that the > swapper knows about, and then just get rid of the pages[MAX_ARG_PAGES] > array completely and instead just populate the new VM directly. That > way the destination is swappable etc, and you can also remove the > "put_dirty_page()" loop later on, as the pages will already be in their > right places. > > It's definitely not a one-liner, but if somebody really feels strongly > about this, then I can tell already that the above is the only way to do > it sanely.
Yup. We discussed this years ago, and it nobody thought it important enough. mm->mmlist didn't exist then, and creating it it _just_ for this feature seemed too intrusive. I agree it's the only sane way to completely remove the limit.
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