On Aug 16, 2009, at 5:24 PM, der Mouse wrote:
The following patch removes the uarea swap-out functionality: [...]After some thought and discussion with few developers, I believe it is worth, because it: [...]Concerns?Well, it's difficult to evaluate whether a benefit is worth a price when all we have is the benefit. What's the price here? Is there any price beyond, effectively, some wired kernel memory per process? How much memory is that - how large are uareas on typical ports?
8KB or 16KB.