From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Nate Diller <nate.diller@gmail.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
Stone Wang <pwstone@gmail.com>,
akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][0/8] (Targeting 2.6.17) Posix memory locking and balanced mlock-LRU semantic
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 23:24:09 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <441FF069.4030508@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5c49b0ed0603201552j58150a18lbf4d0a9b0406d175@mail.gmail.com>
Nate Diller wrote:
> Might I suggest calling it the long_term_pinned list? It also might
> be worth putting ramdisk pages on this list, since they cannot be
> written out in response to memory pressure. This would eliminate the
> need for AOP_WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE.
>
They are for the ram filesystem, btw. and I don't think you can eliminate
AOP_WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE, because it is needed for a number of reasons (out
of swap space being one).
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-21 12:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-20 13:35 Stone Wang
2006-03-20 13:41 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-03-20 23:52 ` Nate Diller
2006-03-21 7:10 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-03-21 12:24 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2006-03-20 17:27 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-03-21 5:23 ` Stone Wang
2006-03-21 15:20 ` Stone Wang
2006-03-24 4:45 ` Rik van Riel
2006-03-21 12:20 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-24 15:05 ` Stone Wang
2006-03-24 16:57 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-24 14:36 ` Andi Kleen
2006-03-24 14:54 ` Stone Wang
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