From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>,
Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: pre12 VM doubts and patch
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 08:34:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010920083438.A1629@athlon.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010920080837.A719@athlon.random> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0109192310340.2852-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0109192310340.2852-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>; from torvalds@transmeta.com on Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 11:15:47PM -0700
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 11:15:47PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> and do early COW (which the write-access kind of means).
my new patch does the early COW.
> However, your patch isn't right for another reason: if we do delete it
> from the swap cache, we'd better mark it dirty so that it gets
> re-allocated a swap entry if it later on needs it.
>
> That's why the old code went to such extremes: it marked it dirty and
> writable if it was a write access (and exclusive), and it marked it _just_
> dirty and removed it from the swap cache if it went over the swap limit.
agreed.
Andrea
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-09-20 6:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-19 17:57 pre12 VM doubts and patch Hugh Dickins
2001-09-19 19:42 ` Hugh Dickins
2001-09-19 21:28 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-19 23:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-19 23:31 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-19 23:49 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-20 1:04 ` Jeff Chua
2001-09-20 1:05 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-20 1:12 ` Jeff Chua
2001-09-19 23:51 ` Hugh Dickins
2001-09-20 0:01 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-20 5:12 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-20 5:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-20 6:08 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-20 6:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-20 6:34 ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2001-09-20 6:26 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-20 6:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-20 6:38 ` Andrea Arcangeli
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