Re: [PATCH 0/5] mm improvements

[Nikita Danilov <Nikita@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hugh Dickins writes:
 > On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Nikita Danilov wrote:
 > > Hugh Dickins writes:
 > >  > If you go the writepage-while-mapped route (more general gotchas?
 > >  > I forget), you'll have to make an exception for shmem_writepage.
 > > 
 > > May be one can just call try_to_unmap() from shmem_writepage()?
 > 
 > That sounds much cleaner.  But I've not yet found what tree your
 > p12-dont-unmap-on-pageout.patch applies to, so cannot judge it.

Whole
ftp://ftp.namesys.com/pub/misc-patches/unsupported/extra/2004.02.04/
applies to the 2.6.2-rc2.

I just updated p12-dont-unmap-on-pageout.patch in-place.

To apply it one has to apply skip-writepage and check-pte-dirty first.

 > 
 > Hugh
 > 

Nikita.
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