From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 06:13:05 -0700 From: "Paul E. McKenney" Subject: Re: Always passing mm and vma down (was: [RFC][PATCH] Convert do_no_page() to a hook to avoid DFS race) Message-ID: <20030602131305.GA1370@us.ibm.com> Reply-To: paulmck@us.ibm.com References: <20030530164150.A26766@us.ibm.com> <20030531104617.J672@nightmaster.csn.tu-chemnitz.de> <20030531234816.GB1408@us.ibm.com> <20030601122200.GB1455@x30.local> <20030601200056.GA1471@us.ibm.com> <1054542770.5187.1.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1054542770.5187.1.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@digeo.com, pmckenne@us.ibm.com List-ID: On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 10:32:50AM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Sun, 2003-06-01 at 22:00, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > The immediate motivation is to avoid the race with zap_page_range() > > when another node writes to the corresponding portion of the file, > > similar to the situation with vmtruncate(). The thought was to > > leverage locking within the distributed filesystem, but if the > > race is solved locally, then, as you say, perhaps this is not > > necessary. > > is said distributed filesystem open source by chance ? At least one soon will be. Thanx, Paul -- 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-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org