Re: [PATCH 0/5] mm improvements

Nikita Danilov
2004-02-04T15:19:16Z

Hugh Dickins writes:
> On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Nikita Danilov wrote:
> > Hugh Dickins writes:
> > > If you go the writepage-while-mapped route (more general gotchas?
> > > I forget), you'll have to make an exception for shmem_writepage.
> >
> > May be one can just call try_to_unmap() from shmem_writepage()?
>
> That sounds much cleaner. But I've not yet found what tree your
> p12-dont-unmap-on-pageout.patch applies to, so cannot judge it.

Whole
ftp://ftp.namesys.com/pub/misc-patches/unsupported/extra/2004.02.04/
applies to the 2.6.2-rc2.

I just updated p12-dont-unmap-on-pageout.patch in-place.

To apply it one has to apply skip-writepage and check-pte-dirty first.

>
> Hugh
>

Nikita.