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On 1/12/07, Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> wrote: > Jaya Kumar wrote: > > - write so get page_mkwrite where we add this page to a list > > - also schedules a workqueue task to be run after a delay > > - app continues writing to that page with no additional cost > > - the workqueue task comes in and unmaps the pages on the list, then > > completes the work associated with updating the framebuffer > > Have you thought about implementing a traditional write-back cache using > the dirty bits, rather than unmapping the page? > Ah, sorry, I erred in my description. I'm not unmapping pages, I'm calling page_mkclean which uses the dirty bits. Thanks, jaya - 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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