* accounting bh->b_count in page->count @ 2001-05-06 20:37 Alexey Zhuravlev 2001-05-06 21:03 ` Rik van Riel 0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread From: Alexey Zhuravlev @ 2001-05-06 20:37 UTC (permalink / raw) To: linux-mm Hello! why do not change bh->b_page->count on getblk/brelse? this could prevent situation when a page that can't be freed by try_to_free_buffers from buffercache lives on inactive_dirty list and VM try to free it every time... -- poka, lexa -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
* Re: accounting bh->b_count in page->count 2001-05-06 20:37 accounting bh->b_count in page->count Alexey Zhuravlev @ 2001-05-06 21:03 ` Rik van Riel 0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread From: Rik van Riel @ 2001-05-06 21:03 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Alexey Zhuravlev; +Cc: linux-mm On Mon, 7 May 2001, Alexey Zhuravlev wrote: > why do not change bh->b_page->count on getblk/brelse? > this could prevent situation when a page that can't be > freed by try_to_free_buffers from buffercache lives on > inactive_dirty list and VM try to free it every time... We have to watch out for one thing though ... we have to be able to write inactive_dirty pages to disk without having them move back to the active list ;) regards, Rik -- Virtual memory is like a game you can't win; However, without VM there's truly nothing to lose... http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ Send all your spam to aardvark@nl.linux.org (spam digging piggy) -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
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