Re: Page Fault Scalability patch V19 [4/4]: Drop use of page_table_lockin do_anonymous_page

[Christoph Lameter]

On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Andi Kleen wrote:

> I still think it's a bad idea to add arbitary process size limits like this:

The limit is pretty high: 2^31*PAGE_SIZE bytes. For the standard 4k
pagesize this will be >8TB.

> >
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_ATOMIC_TABLE_OPS
> > +/*
> > + * Atomic page table operations require that the counters are also
> > + * incremented atomically
> > +*/
> > +#define set_mm_counter(mm, member, value) atomic_set(&(mm)->member, value)
> > +#define get_mm_counter(mm, member) ((unsigned long)atomic_read(&(mm)->member))
> > +#define update_mm_counter(mm, member, value) atomic_add(value, &(mm)->member)
> > +#define MM_COUNTER_T atomic_t
>
> Can you use atomic64_t on 64bit systems at least?

If atomic64_t is available on all 64 bit systems then its no problem.
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