From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
sfkaplan@cs.amherst.edu, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] modified segq for 2.5
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 18:09:43 -0300 (BRT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L.0209091808160.1857-100000@imladris.surriel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D7D09D7.2AE5AD71@digeo.com>
On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Rik van Riel wrote:
> > Move them to the inactive list the moment we're done writing
> > them, that is, the moment we move on to the next page. We
>
> The moment "who" has done writing them? Some writeout
> comes in via shrink_foo() and a ton of writeout comes in
> via balance_dirty_pages(), pdflush, etc.
generic_file_write, once that function moves beyond the last
byte of the page, onto the next page, we can be pretty sure
it's done writing to this page
pages where it always does partial writes, like buffer cache,
database indices, etc... will stay in memory for a longer time.
regards,
Rik
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-09 21:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-15 14:24 Rik van Riel
2002-09-09 9:38 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-09 11:40 ` Ed Tomlinson
2002-09-09 17:10 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-09 18:58 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-09 13:10 ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-09 19:03 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-09 19:25 ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-09 19:55 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-09 20:03 ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-09 20:51 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-09 20:57 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-09 21:09 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2002-09-09 21:52 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-09 22:41 ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-10 0:17 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-09 22:49 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-09 22:54 ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-09 23:32 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-09 23:53 ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-09 22:46 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-09 22:58 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-09 23:40 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-10 0:02 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-10 0:21 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-10 1:13 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-10 1:50 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-10 2:02 ` Rik van Riel
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