Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 20 Sep 2001 12:16:56 +0900 | From | GOTO Masanori <> | Subject | Re: broken VM in 2.4.10-pre9 |
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At Thu, 20 Sep 2001 00:26:05 +0200, Christoph Hellwig <hch@ns.caldera.de> wrote: > > "One argument for reverse mappings is distributed shared memory or > > distributed file systems and their interaction with memory mapped files. > > For example, a distributed file system may need to invalidate a specific > > page of a file that may be mapped multiple times on a node." > > Please take a look at zap_inode_mappings in -ac.
zap_inode_mapping ?
> Currently it only invalidates a whole mapping, but we can easily add > offset and lenght (and will probably do).
Adding offset/length support is good. Did you mean that replacing zap_inode_mapping into more parts like zap_inode_mapping_whole and zap_inode_mapping_range ?
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