Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760424AbXFDTjP (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jun 2007 15:39:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758964AbXFDTjB (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jun 2007 15:39:01 -0400 Received: from smtp-out.google.com ([216.239.45.13]:44421 "EHLO smtp-out.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758933AbXFDTjA (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jun 2007 15:39:00 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=beta; d=google.com; c=nofws; q=dns; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc: subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=J5wo76pWvWKp6nvJ6TmpPzSHffYcoyov+tQirdUoHChyTgwGAG5yW14oEXAnA9xoJ ZD1Cx585miRjAcPnh3Jsw== Message-ID: <46646A33.6090107@google.com> Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 12:38:27 -0700 From: Ethan Solomita User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (Windows/20070509) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Lameter CC: linux-mm@kvack.org, LKML , Andrew Morton , a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl Subject: Re: [RFC 1/7] cpuset write dirty map References: <465FB6CF.4090801@google.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1250 Lines: 29 Christoph Lameter wrote: > 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? > I wasn't sure of the etiquette -- I'd thought that by saying you had signed it off that meant you were accepting my modifications, and didn't want to presume. But I will change it if you like. No slight intended. Unfortunately I don't have a changelog, and since I've since forward ported the changes it would be hard to produce. If you want to review it you should probably review it all, because the forward porting may have introduced issues. -- Ethan - 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/