From: "Jörn Engel" <joern@logfs.org>
To: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: "Jörn Engel" <joern@logfs.org>, linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC:PATCH 00/07] VM File Tails
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 12:11:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070830101108.GD29635@lazybastard.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1188440111.9221.3.camel@norville.austin.ibm.com>
On Wed, 29 August 2007 21:15:11 -0500, Dave Kleikamp wrote:
>
> Once the data is packed into the tail, the page is freed. Later if the
> page is needed, a new page is allocated and the tail is unpacked into
> it. Then the tail is freed (via kfree).
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Good. That part had evaded me.
JA?rn
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-29 20:53 [RFC:PATCH 00/07] VM File Tails Dave Kleikamp
2007-08-29 20:53 ` [RFC:PATCH 01/07] Add tail to address space Dave Kleikamp
2007-08-29 20:53 ` [RFC:PATCH 02/07] Core function for packing, unpacking, and freeing file tails Dave Kleikamp
2007-08-29 20:53 ` [RFC:PATCH 03/07] Release tail when inode is freed Dave Kleikamp
2007-08-29 20:53 ` [RFC:PATCH 04/07] Unpack or remove file tail when inode is resized Dave Kleikamp
2007-08-29 20:53 ` [RFC:PATCH 05/07] find_get_page() and find_lock_page() need to unpack the tail Dave Kleikamp
2007-08-29 20:54 ` [RFC:PATCH 06/07] For readahead, leave data in tail Dave Kleikamp
2007-08-29 20:54 ` [RFC:PATCH 07/07] shrink_active_list: pack file tails rather than move to inactive list Dave Kleikamp
2007-08-29 21:31 ` [RFC:PATCH 00/07] VM File Tails Jörn Engel
2007-08-29 21:45 ` Dave Kleikamp
2007-08-29 23:38 ` Jörn Engel
2007-08-30 2:15 ` Dave Kleikamp
2007-08-30 10:11 ` Jörn Engel [this message]
2007-08-31 21:00 ` Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
2007-08-31 21:47 ` Dave Kleikamp
2007-09-03 21:09 ` Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
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