Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC] Arch option to touch newly allocated pages | Date | Mon, 4 Mar 2002 18:49:47 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> > alloc_pages is only called at the time the backing page is created - > > by then it doesnt matter - its too late. > > *My* (i.e. the one inside UML) alloc_pages, not the host's would do the > dirtying. That's the whole point. The UML alloc_pages would make sure > that the pages it hands out are backed on the host before they are handed > out to the rest of UML.
Ok got you - so its merely grossly ineffecient and downright rude to other users of the system ? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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