Messages in this thread | | | From | "Jeremy Jackson" <> | Subject | Re: [prepatch] address_space-based writeback | Date | Wed, 10 Apr 2002 12:29:17 -0700 |
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This sounds like a wonderful piece of work. I'm also inspired by the rmap stuff coming down the pipe. I wonder if there would be any interference between the two, or could they leverage each other?
Jeremy
----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@zip.com.au> Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 4:21 AM
> > This is a largish patch which makes some fairly deep changes. It's > currently at the "wow, it worked" stage. Most of it is fairly > mature code, but some conceptual changes were recently made. > Hopefully it'll be in respectable state in a few days, but I'd > like people to take a look. > > The idea is: all writeback is against address_spaces. All dirty data > has the dirty bit set against its page. So all dirty data is > accessible by (snip) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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