> However this still leaves the non-linear reclaim (Nick pointed it out as > a potential DoS and other people have corroborated this). I have no idea > on that to do about that.
OK, but that is a completely different problem, not affecting page_mkclean() or msync(). And it doesn't sound too hard to solve: when current algorithm doesn't seem to be making progress, then it will have to be done the hard way, searching for for all nonlinear ptes of a page to unmap. Miklos - 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/
