Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262390AbTFBUl3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jun 2003 16:41:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262445AbTFBUl3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jun 2003 16:41:29 -0400 Received: from wohnheim.fh-wedel.de ([195.37.86.122]:7370 "EHLO wohnheim.fh-wedel.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262390AbTFBUl1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jun 2003 16:41:27 -0400 Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 22:54:41 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel To: David Woodhouse Cc: matsunaga , linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] 1/2 central workspace for zlib Message-ID: <20030602205441.GA30619@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> References: <20030530144959.GA4736@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> <002901c32919$ddc37000$570486da@w0a3t0> <20030602153656.GA679@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> <1054568407.20369.382.camel@passion.cambridge.redhat.com> <20030602155353.GB679@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> <1054569564.20369.385.camel@passion.cambridge.redhat.com> <20030602163704.GC679@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> <1054582573.22361.6.camel@imladris.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1054582573.22361.6.camel@imladris.demon.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1152 Lines: 29 On Mon, 2 June 2003 20:36:13 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > > I was concerned briefly that the allocation could happen when we're > trying to evict a page on memory pressure -- but in fact that's > virtually impossible since you'd have to mount the file system and mmap > your file without actually writing anything to the block device. Right. If someone gets into memory pressure before ever writing to the device, there should be other problems in the system anyway. No need to fix something that is already broken elsewhere. > And anyway, refer to earlier comments about anyone using the na?ve > read/erase/modify/writeback mtdblock translation layer for writing in > production wanting to be shot for it :) Right! J?rn -- More computing sins are committed in the name of efficiency (without necessarily achieving it) than for any other single reason - including blind stupidity. -- W. A. Wulf - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/