Re: [patch] 'sticky pages' support in the VM, futex-2.5.38-C5

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
26 Sep 2002 17:48:12 +0100

On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 16:27, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > Trust me, you'll have to use the page list approach.
>
> yeah, will try that now. I'm a bit worried about the mandatory cross-CPU
> TLB flushes though.

Wouldn't splitting the vm area also be cleaner - that would let you get
things like correct address space accounting too.

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