From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: Chuck Lever <cel@monkey.org>
Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: possible brw_page optimization
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 19:52:01 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <14480.41441.263356.926202@dukat.scot.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSO.4.10.10001271342110.20668-100000@funky.monkey.org>
Hi,
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000 13:50:23 -0500 (EST), Chuck Lever <cel@monkey.org>
said:
> forgetting about encryption for a moment, you don't think the optimization
> is useful in the general case? it's hardly ever used, if at all; plus it
> seems to introduce some bugs. that code would be a lot cleaner without
> all the bother. the "common case," by far, is to read/write the whole
> page.
Fine, if you can clean up the rw-page code, show us patches, certainly.
It's just not the place to be doing encryption: that's a separate
layering issue. Doing it via a dedicated swap inode would be far
better.
--Stephen
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-01-21 20:21 Chuck Lever
2000-01-26 13:01 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-01-26 16:02 ` Chuck Lever
2000-01-26 23:24 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-01-27 18:50 ` Chuck Lever
2000-01-27 19:52 ` Stephen C. Tweedie [this message]
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