Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 Dec 2001 16:30:31 -0500 (EST) | From | volodya@mindspri ... | Subject | Re: mm question |
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On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 volodya@mindspring.com wrote: > > On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > > Even if you have a handle on a physical page, you don't know > > > what processes are using the page, nor if there are additional > > > users besides the processes. > > > > Well, what does kernel do when it runs out of memory ? For example > > when I mmap a large file and start reading it back and force ? > > For the full horror, see mm/vmscan.c, do_try_to_free_memory()
Wonderful !This is the kind of advice I was looking for :))
So if I copy it over to, say, do_try_to_free_region_memory1() and start hacking - will this violate some grand scheme of kernel development ? I.e. is there anything inherently wrong with two different kswapd going on ?
thanks !
Vladimir Dergachev
> > cheers, > > Rik > -- > DMCA, SSSCA, W3C? Who cares? http://thefreeworld.net/ > > http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ >
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