From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: Alexey Zhuravlev <alexey@datafoundation.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: accounting bh->b_count in page->count
Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 18:03:16 -0300 (BRST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105061802330.582-100000@imladris.rielhome.conectiva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200105062036.QAA20511@datafoundation.com>
On Mon, 7 May 2001, Alexey Zhuravlev wrote:
> why do not change bh->b_page->count on getblk/brelse?
> this could prevent situation when a page that can't be
> freed by try_to_free_buffers from buffercache lives on
> inactive_dirty list and VM try to free it every time...
We have to watch out for one thing though ... we have
to be able to write inactive_dirty pages to disk without
having them move back to the active list ;)
regards,
Rik
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2001-05-06 20:37 Alexey Zhuravlev
2001-05-06 21:03 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
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