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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Android Kernel Team <kernel-team@android.com>,
	Robert Love <rlove@google.com>, Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>, Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>,
	Andrea Righi <andrea@betterlinux.com>,
	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Taras Glek <tgek@mozilla.com>, Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>,
	Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] [RFC] tmpfs: Add FALLOC_FL_MARK_VOLATILE/UNMARK_VOLATILE handlers
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 17:47:38 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FD515FA.2020708@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FD2C6C5.1070900@linaro.org>

On 06/08/2012 11:45 PM, John Stultz wrote:

> I *think* ideally, the pages in a volatile range should be similar to
> non-dirty file-backed pages. There is a cost to restore them, but
> freeing them is very cheap. The trick is that volatile ranges introduces

Easier to mark them dirty.

> a new relationship between pages. Since the neighboring virtual pages in
> a volatile range are in effect tied together, purging one effectively
> ruins the value of keeping the others, regardless of which zone they are
> physically.

Then the volatile ->writepage function can zap the whole
object.

-- 
All rights reversed

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-06-10 21:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-01 18:29 [PATCH 0/3] [RFC] Fallocate Volatile Ranges v2 John Stultz
2012-06-01 18:29 ` [PATCH 1/3] [RFC] Interval tree implementation John Stultz
2012-06-01 18:29 ` [PATCH 2/3] [RFC] Add volatile range management code John Stultz
2012-06-01 18:29 ` [PATCH 3/3] [RFC] tmpfs: Add FALLOC_FL_MARK_VOLATILE/UNMARK_VOLATILE handlers John Stultz
2012-06-01 20:17   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-06-01 21:03     ` John Stultz
2012-06-01 21:37       ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-06-01 21:44         ` John Stultz
2012-06-01 22:34           ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-06-01 23:25             ` John Stultz
2012-06-06 19:52               ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-06-06 23:56                 ` John Stultz
2012-06-07 10:55                   ` Dmitry Adamushko
2012-06-07 23:41                     ` Dave Hansen
2012-06-08  3:03                       ` John Stultz
2012-06-08  4:50                         ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-06-09  3:45                           ` John Stultz
2012-06-10  6:35                             ` Dmitry Adamushko
2012-06-10 21:47                             ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2012-06-11 18:35                               ` John Stultz
2012-06-12  1:21                                 ` John Stultz
2012-06-12  7:16                             ` Minchan Kim
2012-06-12 16:03                               ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-06-12 19:35                               ` John Stultz
2012-06-13  0:10                                 ` Minchan Kim
2012-06-13  1:21                                   ` John Stultz
2012-06-13  4:42                                     ` Minchan Kim
2012-06-08  6:39                   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-06-01 23:38 [PATCH 0/3] [RFC] Fallocate Volatile Ranges v3 John Stultz
2012-06-01 23:38 ` [PATCH 3/3] [RFC] tmpfs: Add FALLOC_FL_MARK_VOLATILE/UNMARK_VOLATILE handlers John Stultz

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