Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 15:29:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 15:29:30 -0400 Received: from ip68-7-112-74.sd.sd.cox.net ([68.7.112.74]:2821 "EHLO clpanic.kennet.coplanar.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 15:29:29 -0400 Message-ID: <004b01c1e0c6$01d690f0$7e0aa8c0@bridge> From: "Jeremy Jackson" To: "Andrew Morton" , "lkml" In-Reply-To: <3CB4203D.C3BE7298@zip.com.au> Subject: Re: [prepatch] address_space-based writeback Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 12:29:17 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This sounds like a wonderful piece of work. I'm also inspired by the rmap stuff coming down the pipe. I wonder if there would be any interference between the two, or could they leverage each other? Jeremy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Morton" Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 4:21 AM > > This is a largish patch which makes some fairly deep changes. It's > currently at the "wow, it worked" stage. Most of it is fairly > mature code, but some conceptual changes were recently made. > Hopefully it'll be in respectable state in a few days, but I'd > like people to take a look. > > The idea is: all writeback is against address_spaces. All dirty data > has the dirty bit set against its page. So all dirty data is > accessible by (snip) - 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/