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From: ebiederm+eric@ccr.net (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Zlatko.Calusic@CARNet.hr
Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>,
	Rik van Riel <H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl>,
	Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] swapin readahead
Date: 03 Dec 1998 09:39:48 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1vhjtcjzv.fsf@flinx.ccr.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Zlatko Calusic's message of "03 Dec 1998 09:55:13 +0100"

>>>>> "ZC" == Zlatko Calusic <Zlatko.Calusic@CARNet.hr> writes:

ZC> Speaking about swap files (as opposed to swap partitions) what is the
ZC> reason for synchronous operation when swapping to them, at first
ZC> place? Races?

It appears it was implmented that way long originally and no one has
changed the code.  It is almost trivial to change to using brw_page.

In my shmfs code I have that change, though I haven't tried it in a while.

Eric
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  reply	other threads:[~1998-12-03 15:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-11-26 23:23 Rik van Riel
1998-12-01 15:13 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1998-12-01 15:41   ` Rik van Riel
1998-12-01 15:51   ` Zlatko Calusic
1998-12-01 16:42     ` Rik van Riel
1998-12-01 17:20       ` Zlatko Calusic
1998-12-01 18:32         ` Rik van Riel
1998-12-02 17:35           ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1998-12-02 21:18             ` Zlatko Calusic
1998-12-03  5:25               ` Eric W. Biederman
1998-12-03  8:55                 ` Zlatko Calusic
1998-12-03 15:39                   ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
1998-12-03 10:07                 ` Rik van Riel
1998-12-02 17:33         ` Stephen C. Tweedie
1998-12-03 14:44           ` Rik van Riel

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