Re: downgrade_write replacement in remap_file_pages

Linus Torvalds
2004-06-08T16:39:55Z

On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> So ho-hum. As a first step, David, could you please take a look into
> what's up with downgrade_write()?

One reason why I like Andrea's approach (regardless of downgrade_write())
is that it seems to avoid taking the heavy lock (write) by default.

Linus