On Wed, 7 May 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: > and you're now done. You have your "mm_lock()" (which still needs to be > renamed - it should be a "mmu_notifier_lock()" or something like that), > but you don't need the insane sorting. At most you apparently need a way > to recognize duplicates (so that you don't deadlock on yourself), which > looks like a simple bit-per-vma.
Andrea's mm_lock could have wider impact. It is the first effective way that I have seen of temporarily holding off reclaim from an address space. It sure is a brute force approach. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
