On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 10:08 AM, Andrea Arcangeli <aarca...@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Overall this looks a fairly small change to the rmap code, notably
> less intrusive than the nonlinear vmas created by remap_file_pages.
Considering that remap_file_pages() was an unmitigated disaster, and
-mm has a patch to remove it entirely, I'm not at all convinced this
is a good argument.
We thought remap_file_pages() was a good idea, and it really really
really wasn't. Almost nobody used it, why would the anonymous page
case be any different?
Linus
