Re: broken VM in 2.4.10-pre9
Daniel Phillips (phillips@bonn-fries.net)
Wed, 19 Sep 2001 11:45:44 +0200
On September 17, 2001 06:03 pm, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> In linux we have avoided reverse maps (unlike the BSD's) which tends
> to make the common case fast at the expense of making it more
> difficult to handle times when the VM system is under extreme load and
> we are swapping etc.
What do you suppose is the cost of the reverse map? I get the impression you
think it's more expensive than it is.
--
Daniel
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