From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@e-mind.com>
To: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Subject: Re: PG_clean for shared mapping smart syncing
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 17:27:40 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.981219172526.648A-100000@laser.bogus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199812191617.QAA00819@dax.scot.redhat.com>
On Sat, 19 Dec 1998, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
>Hi,
>
>On Sat, 19 Dec 1998 17:04:26 +0100 (CET), Andrea Arcangeli
><andrea@e-mind.com> said:
>
>Just a couple of comments: I can't see any mechanism in this patch for
>clearing other process's pte dirty bits when we sync a shared page (I
The only reason to add a bitflag in the page->flags field is to avoid
us to play with the pte. Now the pte is used only to set the page readonly
to allow us to remove the clean flag at the first page fault.
Andrea Arcangeli
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-12-19 16:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-12-19 16:04 Andrea Arcangeli
1998-12-19 16:17 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1998-12-19 16:27 ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
1998-12-19 16:37 ` Andrea Arcangeli
1998-12-19 16:46 ` Andrea Arcangeli
1998-12-19 17:10 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1998-12-19 16:23 ` Andrea Arcangeli
1998-12-19 16:36 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
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