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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/3] mm: tracking shared dirty pages
On Thu, 25 May 2006, Jeff Anderson-Lee wrote:

> Christoph Lameter wrote:
>
> > I am a bit confused about the need for Davids patch. set_page_dirty() is
> > already a notification that a page is to be dirtied. Why do we need it
> > twice? set_page_dirty could return an error code and the file system can
> > use the set_page_dirty() hook to get its notification. What we would need
> > to do is to make sure that set_page_dirty can sleep.
>
> set_page_dirty() is actually called fairly late in the game by
> zap_pte_range() and follow_page().  Thus, it is a notification that a page
> HAS BEEN dirtied and needs a writeback.

The tracking patch changes that behavior. set_page_dirty is called before
the write to the page occurs and so its similar to the new method
introduced by David's patch.
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