Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 14:08:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 14:08:24 -0400 Received: from gateway-1237.mvista.com ([12.44.186.158]:15346 "EHLO hermes.mvista.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 14:08:24 -0400 Subject: Re: [patch 1/13] minimal rmap From: Robert Love To: Daniel Phillips Cc: Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , lkml In-Reply-To: References: <3D3500AA.131CE2EB@zip.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 17 Jul 2002 11:11:16 -0700 Message-Id: <1026929477.1085.19.camel@sinai> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 822 Lines: 20 On Wed, 2002-07-17 at 10:57, Daniel Phillips wrote: > On Wednesday 17 July 2002 07:29, Andrew Morton wrote: > > 11: The nightly updatedb run is still evicting everything. > > That is not a problem with rmap per se, it's a result of not properly > handling streaming IO. I don't think you want to get bogged down in this > detail at the moment, it will only distract from the real issues. My > recommendation is to just pretend for the time being that this is correct > behaviour. A good argument for an O_STREAM... various semantics we can modify for it. Robert Love - 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/