Re: [RFC] Track mlock()ed pages

[Nick Piggin]

Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Nick Piggin wrote:
>
>
> > Christoph Lameter wrote:
> >
> > > Add NR_MLOCK
> > >
> > > Track mlocked pages via a ZVC
> >
> > I think it is not quite right. You are tracking the number of ptes
> > that point to mlocked pages, which can be >= the actual number of pages.
>
>
> Mlocked pages are not inherited. I would expect sharing to be very rare.

Things like library and application text could easily have a lot of
sharing.

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