linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.29

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Date:	Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:59:09 -0400
From:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>,
	David Rees <drees76@...il.com>, Jesper Krogh <jesper@...gh.cc>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.29

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 06:34:32PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> Of course, the approach of just checking whether the buffer heads already 
> exists and are mapped (before bothering with anything else) probably works 
> fine in practice. In most loads, pages will have been dirtied by regular 
> "write()" system calls, and then we will have the buffers pre-allocated 
> regardless. 
> 

Yeah, I agree; solving the problem in the case of files being dirtied
via write() is going to solve a much percentage of the cases compared
to those cases where the pages are dirtied via mmap()'ed pages.

I thought we were doing this already, but clearly I should have looked
at the code first.  :-(

						- Ted
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