From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@genband.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] msync: start async writeout when MS_ASYNC
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2012 10:15:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FF15898.4080506@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120622142627.b6184eda.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Il 22/06/2012 23:26, Andrew Morton ha scritto:
>> If the application does not want to start I/O, it can simply call msync
>> with flags equal to MS_INVALIDATE. This one remains a no-op, as it should
>> be on a reasonable implementation.
>
> Using MS_INVALIDATE is a bit of a hack.
Right, you could use flags == 0.
I'm not _that_ attached to this patch, I'll send a v3 of the other one
and drop this one.
Paolo
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-02 8:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-15 15:12 [PATCH v2 0/2] msync improvements Paolo Bonzini
2012-06-15 15:12 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] msync: support syncing a small part of the file Paolo Bonzini
2012-06-22 21:12 ` Andrew Morton
2012-07-02 8:14 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-06-15 15:12 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] msync: start async writeout when MS_ASYNC Paolo Bonzini
2012-06-22 21:26 ` Andrew Morton
2012-07-02 8:15 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
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