Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759519AbXFDSju (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jun 2007 14:39:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754300AbXFDSjn (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jun 2007 14:39:43 -0400 Received: from netops-testserver-4-out.sgi.com ([192.48.171.29]:38892 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754342AbXFDSjn (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jun 2007 14:39:43 -0400 Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 11:39:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: clameter@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com To: Ethan Solomita cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, LKML , Andrew Morton , a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl Subject: Re: [RFC 1/7] cpuset write dirty map In-Reply-To: <465FB6CF.4090801@google.com> Message-ID: References: <465FB6CF.4090801@google.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: 747 Lines: 18 On Thu, 31 May 2007, Ethan Solomita wrote: > The dirty map is only cleared (or freed) when the inode is cleared. > At that point no pages are attached to the inode anymore and therefore it can > be done without any locking. The dirty map therefore records all nodes that > have been used for dirty pages by that inode until the inode is no longer > used. > > Originally by Christoph Lameter You should preserve my Signed-off-by: since I wrote most of this. Is there a changelog? - 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/