Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 4 Dec 2001 15:18:49 +0100 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: your mail on mmap() to the kernel list |
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On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 03:34:54PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Peter Zaitsev wrote: > > > > ... > > It's very simple. The kernel has a linked list of vma's for your > process. It is kept in address order. Each time you request a > new mapping, the kernel walks down that list looking for an address > at which to place the new mapping. This data structure is set up > for efficient find-by-address, not for efficient find-a-gap.
exactly.
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