Re: [PATCH 0/5] mm improvements

Hugh Dickins
2004-02-04T15:03:39Z

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.

Hugh