From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 23:34:57 +0100 From: Andrea Arcangeli Subject: Re: PATCH [2.4.0test10]: Kiobuf#02, fault-in fix Message-ID: <20001106233457.A1276@inspiron.random> References: <20001102134021.B1876@redhat.com> <20001103232721.D27034@athlon.random> <20001106150539.A19112@redhat.com> <20001106171204.B22626@athlon.random> <20001106165416.A27036@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20001106165416.A27036@redhat.com>; from sct@redhat.com on Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 04:54:16PM +0000 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: "Stephen C. Tweedie" Cc: Linus Torvalds , Rik van Riel , Ingo Molnar , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 04:54:16PM +0000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > [..] The > one piece of that missing [..] Ok, I was just looking the context of your diff. About the implementation of the missing VM infrastructure for handling page dirty at the physical pagecache layer, I'd suggest to change ramfs to use a new PG_protected bitfield with the current semantics of PG_dirty, and to use PG_dirty for the stuff that we must flush to disk. Andrea -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/