Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/3] mlock: avoid dirtying pages and triggering writeback | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Date | Wed, 17 Nov 2010 23:18:46 +0100 |
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On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 14:05 -0800, Michel Lespinasse wrote: > > Really, my understanding is that not pre-allocating filesystem blocks > is just fine. This is, after all, what happens with ext3 and it's > never been reported as a bug (that I know of). > fwiw I'm perfectly fine with it
> If filesystem people's feedback is that they really want mlock() to > continue pre-allocating blocks, maybe we can just do it using > fallocate() rather than page_mkwrite() callbacks ?
Sounds sensible..
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