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On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 03:20:00PM +0000, Hugh Dickins wrote: > On Sat, 4 Feb 2006, yipee wrote: > > Hugh Dickins <hugh <at> veritas.com> writes: > > > I'll assume that when you say "page owned by a user program", you're > > > meaning a private page, not a shared file page mapped into the program. > > > If you're asking about what currently happens, the answer is "No". > > > > > > If you're asking about what you can assume, the answer is "Yes". > > > > So you are saying that the current kernel doesn't move these kind of pages? > > If you don't have swap (one of the conditions you gave), yes. > And what if application forks and writes to the private page? Kernel actually memcpy the page to another location. -- Gleb. - 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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