Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750696AbWIASDQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Sep 2006 14:03:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750702AbWIASDQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Sep 2006 14:03:16 -0400 Received: from e33.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.151]:39053 "EHLO e33.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750696AbWIASDP (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Sep 2006 14:03:15 -0400 Subject: Re: [patch 3/9] Guest page hinting: volatile page cache. From: Dave Hansen To: schwidefsky@de.ibm.com Cc: Andy Whitcroft , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, frankeh@watson.ibm.com In-Reply-To: <1157132520.21733.78.camel@localhost> References: <20060901110948.GD15684@skybase> <1157122667.28577.69.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1157124674.21733.13.camel@localhost> <44F8563B.3050505@shadowen.org> <1157126640.21733.43.camel@localhost> <1157127483.28577.117.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1157127943.21733.52.camel@localhost> <1157128634.28577.139.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1157129762.21733.63.camel@localhost> <1157130970.28577.150.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1157132520.21733.78.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 11:03:00 -0700 Message-Id: <1157133780.18728.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 742 Lines: 23 On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 19:42 +0200, Martin Schwidefsky wrote: > The problem of page discard vs. normal page remove is that the page can > be remove and discarded at the same time. Both sides are writers in the > sense that they want to remove the page from page cache. RCU doesn't not > help with that kind of race. OK. It comes down to a race between __remove_from_page_cache()/__delete_from_swap_cache() and __page_discard() running on the same page at the same time. Right? -- Dave - 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/