| Date | Tue, 10 Oct 2006 00:45:26 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.19-rc1-mm1 |
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On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 09:20:00 +0200 Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 00:09 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > +htlb-forget-rss-with-pt-sharing.patch
Which I didn't write. cc's added.
> if it's ok to ignore RSS,
We'd prefer not to. But what's the alternative?
> can we consider the shared pagetables for > normal pages patch?
Has been repeatedly considered, but Hugh keeps finding bugs in it.
> It saves quite a bit of memory on even desktop > workloads as well as avoiding several (soft) pagefaults. > > So.. what does RSS actually mean? Can we ignore it somewhat for > shared-readonly mappings ?
We'd prefer to go the other way, and implement RLIMIT_RSS wouldn't we? - 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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