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From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>,
	Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>,
	Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>,
	Glauber de Oliveira Costa <glommer@br.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp,
	linux-ntfs-dev@lists.sourceforge.net, aia21@cantab.net,
	hch@infradead.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use of getblk differs between locations
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 17:52:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051014165223.GA23420@mail.shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051013111707.GB516@openzaurus.ucw.cz>

Pavel Machek wrote:
> *Good starting point*.
> 
> Anyway, one solution would be to simply mlockall() on that replugitd

Unfortunately, mlockall() isn't effective for an X application (for
the dialog) because the X server needs resources too, and that's not
usually mlock'd because it's too big.  (It would be nice to have a
general solution to allow mlock'd GUI applications).

> and/or make dirty data hdd based (not ram based)

Ooh, swappable dirty data... nice idea :)

> and/or restricting dirty buffers to 10MB for removable media.

That seems like the simplest effective solution.

-- Jamie

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From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>,
	Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>,
	Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>,
	Glauber de Oliveira Costa <glommer@br.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp,
	linux-ntfs-dev@lists.sourceforge.net, aia21@cantab.net,
	hch@infradead.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use of getblk differs between locations
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 17:52:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051014165223.GA23420@mail.shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051013111707.GB516@openzaurus.ucw.cz>

Pavel Machek wrote:
> *Good starting point*.
> 
> Anyway, one solution would be to simply mlockall() on that replugitd

Unfortunately, mlockall() isn't effective for an X application (for
the dialog) because the X server needs resources too, and that's not
usually mlock'd because it's too big.  (It would be nice to have a
general solution to allow mlock'd GUI applications).

> and/or make dirty data hdd based (not ram based)

Ooh, swappable dirty data... nice idea :)

> and/or restricting dirty buffers to 10MB for removable media.

That seems like the simplest effective solution.

-- Jamie


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  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-14 17:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-10 20:45 [PATCH] Use of getblk differs between locations Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2005-10-10 21:20 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2005-10-10 21:46   ` Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2005-10-10 21:58     ` Mikulas Patocka
2005-10-10 22:25       ` Anton Altaparmakov
2005-10-10 22:49         ` Mikulas Patocka
2005-10-10 23:12           ` Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2005-10-10 23:16             ` Mikulas Patocka
2005-10-10 23:33               ` Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2005-10-10 23:33                 ` Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2005-10-10 23:34                 ` Mikulas Patocka
2005-10-10 23:34                   ` Mikulas Patocka
2005-10-10 23:49                   ` Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2005-10-11  7:52           ` Anton Altaparmakov
2005-10-12 19:51             ` Jeff Mahoney
2005-10-12 19:59               ` Mikulas Patocka
2005-10-12 20:07                 ` Jeff Mahoney
2005-10-12 20:12                   ` Mikulas Patocka
2005-10-12 20:14                     ` Anton Altaparmakov
2005-10-12 20:31                       ` Mikulas Patocka
2005-10-12 21:19                         ` Jeff Mahoney
2005-10-12 21:35                         ` Anton Altaparmakov
2005-10-14 11:32                           ` Al Boldi
2005-10-13  0:09                     ` Jamie Lokier
2005-10-13  0:21                       ` Mikulas Patocka
2005-10-13  0:27                         ` Jamie Lokier
2005-10-13 11:17                     ` Pavel Machek
2005-10-14 16:52                       ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2005-10-14 16:52                         ` Jamie Lokier
2005-10-14 18:26                         ` Mikulas Patocka
2005-10-13  0:05                   ` Jamie Lokier
2005-10-12 20:08               ` Anton Altaparmakov
2005-10-10 22:36       ` Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2005-10-10 22:28         ` Anton Altaparmakov
2005-10-10 23:36           ` Andrew Morton
2005-10-11  0:07             ` Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2005-10-11  0:05               ` Al Viro
2005-10-11  0:40                 ` Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2005-10-11 12:35                   ` Jan Hudec
2005-10-11  0:09             ` Mikulas Patocka
2005-10-11  1:07               ` Andrew Morton
2005-10-11  1:20                 ` Mikulas Patocka
2005-10-11  5:02                   ` Andrew Morton
2005-10-11  5:02                     ` Andrew Morton
2005-10-11  8:07                   ` Anton Altaparmakov
2005-10-11  8:01                 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2005-10-13  0:58                   ` Mike Christie

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