From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 14:23:35 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: More observations... In-Reply-To: <20000516170707.B30047@redhat.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: "Stephen C. Tweedie" Cc: Mike Simons , Linus Torvalds , Linux Memory Management List List-ID: 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 -- The Internet is not a network of computers. It is a network of people. That is its real strength. Wanna talk about the kernel? irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies http://www.conectiva.com/ http://www.surriel.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.eu.org/Linux-MM/