Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 May 2006 18:25:29 +0100 (BST) | From | Hugh Dickins <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/3] mm: tracking shared dirty pages |
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On Tue, 30 May 2006, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Tue, 30 May 2006, David Howells wrote: > > > What's wrong with my suggestion anyway? > > Adds yet another method with functionality that for the most part > is the same as set_page_dirty().
Your original question, whether they could be combined, was a good one; and I hoped you'd be right. But I agree with David, they cannot, unless we sacrifice the guarantee that one or the other is there to give. It's much like the relationship between ->prepare_write and ->commit_write.
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