Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 2 Nov 1999 11:46:06 -0800 (PST) | From | (V. Ganesh) | Subject | Re: Buffer and page cache |
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> > - a bit to keep shrink_mmap away from the page. > > Yes, bumping the page count is the perfect way to do this.
exactly where would you bump up the page count ? in write() ? what if there were several writes to the same page ? we can't keep bumping it up. of course we could abuse the page count by setting a high bit, but that's ugly.
ganesh
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