On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Andi Kleen wrote:

Hmm - this means that a large munmap has to take another lock
for each freed page right? That could get a bit expensive.

I do hope not!  Where do you see that extra lock per page?

(The patch doesn't bring in locking per page-table-entry,
just locking per page-table.)

Hugh
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