From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from dax.scot.redhat.com (sct@dax.scot.redhat.com [195.89.149.242]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA11336 for ; Sat, 19 Dec 1998 11:19:03 -0500 Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 16:17:55 GMT Message-Id: <199812191617.QAA00819@dax.scot.redhat.com> From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: PG_clean for shared mapping smart syncing In-Reply-To: References: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-mm@kvack.org, "Stephen C. Tweedie" , Linus Torvalds List-ID: Hi, On Sat, 19 Dec 1998 17:04:26 +0100 (CET), Andrea Arcangeli said: Just a couple of comments: I can't see any mechanism in this patch for clearing other process's pte dirty bits when we sync a shared page (I know you had a patch for this before), and conceptually I much prefer to have a Dirty bit than a Clean bit, simply because that's what we use absolutely everywhere else in the kernel. --Stephen -- This is a majordomo managed list. To unsubscribe, send a message with the body 'unsubscribe linux-mm me@address' to: majordomo@kvack.org