Re: 2.6.19-rc1-mm1

On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 00:09 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
+htlb-forget-rss-with-pt-sharing.patch

if it's ok to ignore RSS, can we consider the shared pagetables for
normal pages patch? It saves quite a bit of memory on even desktop
workloads as well as avoiding several (soft) pagefaults.

So.. what does RSS actually mean? Can we ignore it somewhat for
shared-readonly mappings ?


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