The case of the overly anonymous anon_vma

Posted Apr 23, 2010 16:17 UTC (Fri) by i3839 (guest, #31386)
In reply to: The case of the overly anonymous anon_vma by rilder
Parent article: The case of the overly anonymous anon_vma

Not only that, if the anon_vma isn't used for file caches, but only for anonymous pages then the whole thing seems dubious when swap is disabled.

In addition to that, anon_vma apparently didn't solve the problem well, but instead of replacing it with something that does, more kludges are added on top of it. I got the feeling that there's some much more elegant solution waiting for someone to find it.