Re: TODO list for new VM (oct 2000)

[Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>]

On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> > Why do you apparently ignore the fact that page-out write-back
> > performance is horribly crappy because it always starts out
> > doing synchronous writes?
> 
> Because it is fixed in the patch I mailed yesterday?

One small warning though. Please don't apply that patch
yet because I fixed 3 more small problems today. I'll
send you an updated patch...

- the compile warnings are fixed
- in try_to_free_pages(), we forgot to set
  PF_MEMALLOC in current->flags  (oops)
- in grow_buffers(), in case we cannot get a
  buffer head, we must unlock the page

A patch against 2.4.0-test9-pre8 with these 3 changes will
be on its way once I've tested it a bit...

regards,

Rik
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