Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | | Subject | Re: invalidate_inode_pages in 2.5.32/3 | | Date | Sat, 7 Sep 2002 10:01:27 +0200 |
| |
On Thursday 05 September 2002 20:27, Andrew Morton wrote: > But be aware that invalidate_inode_pages has always been best-effort. > If someone is reading, or writing one of those pages then it > certainly will not be removed. If you need assurances that the > pagecache has been taken down then we'll need something stronger > in there.
But what is stopping us now from removing a page from the page cache even while IO is in progress? (Practical issue: the page lock, but that's a self-fullfilling prophesy.)
-- Daniel - 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/
|  |