Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 Feb 2006 13:15:29 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: msync() behaviour broken for MS_ASYNC, revert patch? |
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On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Yes, it would make sense to run balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited() inside > msync_pte_range(). So pdflush will get poked if we hit > background_dirty_ratio threshold, or we go into caller-initiated writeout > if we hit dirty_ratio. > > But it's not completely trivial, because I don't think we want to be doing > blocking writeback with mmap_sem held.
Why not just do it once, at the end?
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