Messages in this thread |  | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: invalidate_inode_pages in 2.5.32/3 | Date | Wed, 11 Sep 2002 19:14:58 +0200 |
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On Wednesday 11 September 2002 18:18, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > We _could_ walk the pte chain in writeback. But that would involve > > visiting every page in the mapping, basically. That could hurt. > > > > But if a page is already dirty, and we're going to write it anyway, > > it makes tons of sense to run around and clean all the ptes which > > point at it. > > Walking ptes probably doesn't hurt as much as doing extra > disk IO, so I guess you're right ;)
Well, but the thing I'm worried about is that we have failed to implement sys_msync at this point, please reassure me on that, if possible.
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