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From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: "Juan J. Quintela" <quintela@fi.udc.es>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
	"Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: 2.4 / 2.5 VM plans
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 14:45:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000629144557.S3473@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yttitutwlmi.fsf@serpe.mitica>; from quintela@fi.udc.es on Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 11:17:57PM +0200

Hi,

On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 11:17:57PM +0200, Juan J. Quintela wrote:

> 2.5:
> 
> 7) Make a ->flush method in the address_space operations

OK

> 8) This one is related with the FS, not MM specific, but FS people
>    want to be able to allocate MultiPage buffers (see pagebuf from
>    XFS) and people want similar functionality for other things.

Yes, but this should be layered on top of the page handling ---
there's no need to integrate it into the low levels of the page cache.

> 9) We need also to implement write clustering for fs/page cache/swap.

Same as above.  When the pagebuf layer or whatever gets a write
request for a given page, it is perfectly at liberty to write out
adjacent pages too if it wants to.  The VM doesn't have to enforce
that itself.

Cheers,
 Stephen
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  reply	other threads:[~2000-06-29 13:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-06-25  3:51 Rik van Riel
2000-06-28 17:45 ` vii
2000-06-28 21:04   ` Juan J. Quintela
2000-06-28 21:17 ` Juan J. Quintela
2000-06-29 13:45   ` Stephen C. Tweedie [this message]
2000-06-29 13:44 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-07-06  7:51   ` page_table_lock problem [was: Re: 2.4 / 2.5 VM plans] Andrey Savochkin
2000-07-06 13:32     ` Stephen C. Tweedie

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