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Date:      Sun, 10 Nov 2002 18:04:59 -0800 (PST)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        "Alan L. Cox" <alc@imimic.com>
Cc:        alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: on the same note..
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0211101804060.62965-100000@beppo>
In-Reply-To: <3DCEB79A.69EB752D@imimic.com>

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> Matthew Jacob wrote:
> > 
> > Err, well, this *is* in vm object allocation...
> 
> Ah, I see what you're talking about now.  Until the vm object has been
> returned by the allocation routine it is not shared data.  The
> generation count is used to detect changes in the list of resident pages
> by sleeping processes, not to detect that the same storage is being
> recycled for a new object.
> 

Well, if this is the case, the allocator shouldn't be just incrementing
it, should it? Shouldn't it always start at zero?


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