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Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Nick Piggin wrote: > >>I can't see how that's exactly a problem -- so long as the page does not >>get reclaimed (it won't, because we have a ref on it) then all that matters >>is that the page eventually gets marked dirty. > > > But the point being that "try_to_free_buffers()" marks it clean > AFTERWARDS. For some reason I thought you were suggesting it is a problem on its own :P Yes I agree there is a pagefault vs ttfb race. -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com - 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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