From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <393E8AEF.7A782FE4@reiser.to> Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 10:48:31 -0700 From: Hans Reiser MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: journaling & VM (was: Re: reiserfs being part of the kernel: it'snot just the code) References: <393DA31A.358AE46D@reiser.to> <20000607121243.F29432@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: "Stephen C. Tweedie" Cc: Rik van Riel , bert hubert , linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, Chris Mason , linux-mm@kvack.org, Alexander Zarochentcev List-ID: "Stephen C. Tweedie" wrote: > Use reservations. That's the point --- you reserve in advance, so that > the VM can *guarantee* that you can continue to pin more pages up to > the maximum you have reserved. You take a reservation before starting > a fs operation, so that if you need to block, it doesn't prevent the > running transaction from being committed. > > Cheers, > Stephen Ok, let's admit it, we have been agreeing on this with you for 9 months and no code has been written by any of us.:-/ Hnas -- 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/