Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964960AbVLFMTe (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Dec 2005 07:19:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964968AbVLFMTd (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Dec 2005 07:19:33 -0500 Received: from pat.uio.no ([129.240.130.16]:22432 "EHLO pat.uio.no") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964960AbVLFMTc (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Dec 2005 07:19:32 -0500 Subject: Re: nfs unhappiness with memory pressure From: Trond Myklebust To: Nick Piggin Cc: Andrew Morton , theonetruekenny@yahoo.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <439524E2.7050500@yahoo.com.au> References: <20051205210442.17357.qmail@web34106.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <1133822367.8003.5.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> <20051206143641.3feadaea.akpm@osdl.org> <1133844026.8007.36.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> <439524E2.7050500@yahoo.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 07:18:12 -0500 Message-Id: <1133871493.8020.4.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-UiO-Spam-info: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-3.074, required 12, autolearn=disabled, AWL 1.74, FORGED_RCVD_HELO 0.05, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL 0.14, UIO_MAIL_IS_INTERNAL -5.00) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 626 Lines: 19 On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 16:42 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: > writepage should as well, then it would have a better chance > of just doing the right thing. writepage triggers a stable write of the page (i.e. the page is written directly to disk) if asked to reclaim it. If the VM wants the unstable writes from the mapping to be committed, it should call writepages. Cheers, Trond - 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/