Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932355AbWE3RbR (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 May 2006 13:31:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932356AbWE3RbR (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 May 2006 13:31:17 -0400 Received: from omx2-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.19]:44975 "EHLO omx2.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932355AbWE3RbQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 May 2006 13:31:16 -0400 Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 10:30:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter To: Hugh Dickins cc: David Howells , Peter Zijlstra , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Christoph Lameter , Martin Bligh , Nick Piggin , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] mm: tracking shared dirty pages In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20060525135534.20941.91650.sendpatchset@lappy> <20060525135555.20941.36612.sendpatchset@lappy> <24747.1148653985@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <12042.1148976035@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <7966.1149006374@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 613 Lines: 14 On Tue, 30 May 2006, Hugh Dickins wrote: > 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. Ok, so separate patch sets? - 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/