linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 1/7] cpuset write dirty map

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Date:	Mon, 4 Jun 2007 11:39:40 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Ethan Solomita <solo@...gle.com>
cc:	linux-mm@...ck.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...gle.com>, a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/7] cpuset write dirty map

On Thu, 31 May 2007, Ethan Solomita wrote:

> The dirty map is only cleared (or freed) when the inode is cleared.
> At that point no pages are attached to the inode anymore and therefore it can
> be done without any locking. The dirty map therefore records all nodes that
> have been used for dirty pages by that inode until the inode is no longer
> used.
> 
> Originally by Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>

You should preserve my Signed-off-by: since I wrote most of this. Is there 
a changelog?

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