From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 11:39:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [RFC 1/7] cpuset write dirty map In-Reply-To: <465FB6CF.4090801@google.com> Message-ID: References: <465FB6CF.4090801@google.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Ethan Solomita Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, LKML , Andrew Morton , a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl List-ID: On Thu, 31 May 2007, Ethan Solomita wrote: > The dirty map is only cleared (or freed) when the inode is cleared. > At that point no pages are attached to the inode anymore and therefore it can > be done without any locking. The dirty map therefore records all nodes that > have been used for dirty pages by that inode until the inode is no longer > used. > > Originally by Christoph Lameter You should preserve my Signed-off-by: since I wrote most of this. Is there a changelog? -- 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-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org