Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 6 May 2002 11:00:52 -0300 (BRT) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: Linux-2.5.14.. |
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On Mon, 6 May 2002, Andrew Morton wrote: > bert hubert wrote:
> > I parsed this 'dirty state' sentence all wrong at first :-) Andrew, Linus - > > where does the current VM lie in between rmap-vm and aa-vm?
> I made minimal changes in there to teach the page allocator that > all dirty memory is written back via pages and not sometimes-pages, > sometimes-buffers. Also to add support for the new `clustering > writeback' which address_spaces can perform.
> So it's all page-oriented now.
Nice, this will make it possible to have much cleaner page replacement code.
regards,
Rik -- Bravely reimplemented by the knights who say "NIH".
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