Re: [prepatch] address_space-based writeback

Jeremy Jackson (jerj@coplanar.net)
Wed, 10 Apr 2002 12:29:17 -0700


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" <akpm@zip.com.au>
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/