Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262744AbVDYTp7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Apr 2005 15:45:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262756AbVDYTp7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Apr 2005 15:45:59 -0400 Received: from dsl027-180-174.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([216.27.180.174]:26242 "EHLO cheetah.davemloft.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262749AbVDYTpp (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Apr 2005 15:45:45 -0400 Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 12:37:27 -0700 From: "David S. Miller" To: Avi Kivity Cc: galibert@pobox.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: tcp_sendpage and page allocation lifetime vs. iscsi Message-Id: <20050425123727.48afa956.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: <426D4857.6080004@argo.co.il> References: <20050425170259.GA36024@dspnet.fr.eu.org> <426D40D4.8050900@argo.co.il> <20050425121953.6b5c3278.davem@davemloft.net> <426D4857.6080004@argo.co.il> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; sparc-unknown-linux-gnu) X-Face: "_;p5u5aPsO,_Vsx"^v-pEq09'CU4&Dc1$fQExov$62l60cgCc%FnIwD=.UF^a>?5'9Kn[;433QFVV9M..2eN.@4ZWPGbdi<=?[:T>y?SD(R*-3It"Vj:)"dP Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 518 Lines: 13 On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 22:43:19 +0300 Avi Kivity wrote: > yes, if he frees the pages immediately after tcp_sendpage, then the > reference count would remain elevated until tcp completes sending these > pages. That's what I meant, sorry for the confusion. - 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/