linux-kernel - Re: [patch 2/3] only allow nonlinear vmas for ram backed filesystems

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Date:	Sun, 25 Mar 2007 10:51:27 -0500
From:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	William Lee Irwin III <wli@...omorphy.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 2/3] only allow nonlinear vmas for ram backed filesystems

On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 02:12:32PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 23:09 +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...e.cz>
> > 
> > Dirty page accounting/limiting doesn't work for nonlinear mappings, so
> > for non-ram backed filesystems emulate with linear mappings.  This
> > retains ABI compatibility with previous kernels at minimal code cost.
> > 
> > All known users of nonlinear mappings actually use tmpfs, so this
> > shouldn't have any negative effect.

They do? I thought the whole point of nonlinear mappings was for
mapping files bigger than the address space (eg. databases). Is Oracle
instead using this to map >3G files on a tmpfs??

-- 
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