Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 8 Jan 2004 00:23:29 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: a new version of memory hotremove patch |
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IWAMOTO Toshihiro <iwamoto@valinux.co.jp> wrote: > > - If a page is in mapping->io_pages when remap happens, it will be > moved to dirty_pages. Tracking page->list to find out the list > which page is connected to would be too expensive, and I have no other > idea.
That sounds like a reasonable thing to do. The only impact would be that an fsync() which is currently in progress could fail to write the page, so the page is still dirty after the fsync() returns.
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