From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 21 May 2002 01:24:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 21 May 2002 01:24:48 -0400 Received: from pizda.ninka.net ([216.101.162.242]:62661 "EHLO pizda.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 21 May 2002 01:24:47 -0400 Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 22:10:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20020520.221055.106159485.davem@redhat.com> To: torvalds@transmeta.com Cc: paulus@samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux-2.5.16 From: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Linus Torvalds Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 22:10:31 -0700 (PDT) I tried to make the interface fairly generic, so that people could easily do any (or none, like on x86) of these optimizations with little or no overhead. It still needs to handle the "unmapping entire address space" vs. "unmapping munmap-like operation". Currently we'll flush excessively when doing exit_mmap(). I'll go and hack this into your new stuff. I guess you didn't read my emails from today for some reason, I explained all of this.