Messages in this thread |  | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: broken VM in 2.4.10-pre9 | Date | Wed, 19 Sep 2001 11:45:44 +0200 |
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On September 17, 2001 06:03 pm, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > In linux we have avoided reverse maps (unlike the BSD's) which tends > to make the common case fast at the expense of making it more > difficult to handle times when the VM system is under extreme load and > we are swapping etc.
What do you suppose is the cost of the reverse map? I get the impression you think it's more expensive than it is.
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