Re: [PATCH][1/2] return values shrink_dcache_memory etc

Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Mon, 22 Jul 2002 10:44:49 -0300 (BRT)


On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Rik van Riel wrote:

> Apart from both of these we'll also need code to garbage collect
> empty page tables so users can't clog up memory by mmaping a page
> every 4 MB ;)

Btw, I've started work on this code already.

Putting the dcache/icache pages on the LRU list in the way
Linus wanted is definately a lower priority thing for me at
this point, especially considering the fact that Ed Tomlinson's
way of having these pages on the LRU seems to work just fine ;)

regards,

Rik

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