Re: Subtle MM bug

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Tue, 9 Jan 2001 22:57:11 -0800 (PST)


On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, David Woodhouse wrote:
>
> How does this affect embedded systems with no swap space at all?

The no-swap behaviour shoul dactually be pretty much identical, simply
because both 2.2 and 2.4 will do the same thing: just skip dirty pages in
the page tables because they cannot do anything about them.

That said, the _other_ VM differences in 2.4.x may obviously make a
difference, just not the sticky swap cache one..

Linus

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