From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <441FF069.4030508@yahoo.com.au> Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 23:24:09 +1100 From: Nick Piggin MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH][0/8] (Targeting 2.6.17) Posix memory locking and balanced mlock-LRU semantic References: <1142862078.3114.47.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <5c49b0ed0603201552j58150a18lbf4d0a9b0406d175@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5c49b0ed0603201552j58150a18lbf4d0a9b0406d175@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Nate Diller Cc: Arjan van de Ven , Stone Wang , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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). -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com -- 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: email@kvack.org