Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 May 2003 16:26:59 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] Interface to invalidate regions of mmaps |
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On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 04:11:31PM -0700, Zach Brown wrote: > but on the other hand, this doesn't solve another problem we have with > opportunistic lock extents and sparse page cache populations. Ideally > we'd like a FS specific pointer in struct page so we can associate pages > in the cache with a lock, but I can't imagine suggesting such a thing > within earshot of wli. so we'd still have to track the dirty offsets to > avoid having to pass through offsets 0 ... i_size only to find that one > page in the 8T file that was cached.
Nah, don't worry about sizeof(struct page) anymore; I'll just jack up PAGE_SIZE to compensate.
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