On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Paul Mundt wrote: > There's quite a bit of room for improving and extending the existing > code, and those options should likely be exhausted first.
There is a confusing maze of special rules if one goes beyond the simple process address space case. There are no clean rules on how to combine memory policies. Refcounting / updating becomes a problem because policies are intended to be only updated from the process that set them up. Look at the gimmicks that Paul needed to do to update memory policies when a process is migrated and the vmas on the stack for shmem etc etc. - 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/
