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From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Nikita Danilov <nikita@clusterfs.com>,
	Andrea@suse.de, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: "orphaned pagecache memleak fix" question.
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 17:12:46 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200504061712.47244.mason@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050406005804.0045faf9.akpm@osdl.org>

On Wednesday 06 April 2005 03:58, Andrew Morton wrote:

> >  - wouldn't it be simpler to unconditionally remove page from LRU in
> >  ->invalidatepage()?
>
> I guess that's an option, yes.  If the fs cannot successfully invalidate
> the page then it can either block (as described above) or remove the page
> from the LRU.  The fs then wholly owns the page.
>
> I think it would be better to make ->invalidatepage always succeed though.
> The situation is probably rare.

In data=journal it isn't rare at all.  Dropping the page from the lru would be 
the best solution I think.

-chris
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-04-06 21:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-05 16:02 Nikita Danilov
2005-04-06  7:58 ` Andrew Morton
2005-04-06 12:06   ` Nikita Danilov
2005-04-06 19:27     ` Andrew Morton
2005-04-06 21:07       ` Nikita Danilov
2005-04-06 21:34         ` Andrew Morton
2005-04-06 21:12   ` Chris Mason [this message]
2005-04-06 21:30     ` Andrew Morton
2005-04-06 21:50       ` Chris Mason

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