From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Simons <msimons@moria.simons-clan.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: More observations...
Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 14:23:35 -0300 (BRST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0005161422380.30661-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20000516170707.B30047@redhat.com>
On Tue, 16 May 2000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> For writable shared file mappings, the flush only goes to the
> buffer cache, not to disk, so we still rely on bdflush
> writeback, but currently filemap_swapout triggers the bdflush
> thread automatically anyway. Subsequent shrink_mmap reclaims
> will just find a locked page and block, which is the desired
> behaviour.
I can agree on this. Shrink_mmap() should wait if it finds
(a number of) locked buffers. [It doesn't seem to do that
right now]
Linus??
regards,
Rik
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-05-16 17:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-05-16 2:44 Mike Simons
2000-05-16 10:20 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-05-16 15:41 ` Rik van Riel
2000-05-16 16:07 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-05-16 17:23 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
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