Nick Piggin wrote: > However we still have to visit those to-be-unmapped parts of the page > table, > to find the pages and free them. So we still at least need to bring it > into > cache for the read... at which point, the store probably isn't a big > burden.
Why not try to find a place to stash a linklist pointer and link them all together? Saves the pulldown pagetable walk altogether. J - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/