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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Cc: hugh@veritas.com, willy@debian.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org, drepper@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Re: Problems with kernel mmap (failing tst-mmap-eofsync in glibc on parisc)
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 17:22:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030823172251.4e656f9a.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1061680279.1785.534.camel@mulgrave>

On 23 Aug 2003 18:11:16 -0500
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 2003-08-23 at 17:53, David S. Miller wrote:
> > How often do writes happen to files while private mappings
> > to it exist? :-)  This is one of the reasons I think this
> > discussion is a bit silly.
 ...
> Not having to flush the private mappings is a huge optimisation.

You're not answering my question :(

I know that when the case _DOES_ happen, your optimization is
worthwhile, my question is not about this.  My question is about
how often does this case happen.


  reply	other threads:[~2003-08-24  0:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-22 14:40 Problems with kernel mmap (failing tst-mmap-eofsync in glibc on parisc) James Bottomley
2003-08-22 16:14 ` David S. Miller
2003-08-22 16:34   ` [parisc-linux] " Matthew Wilcox
2003-08-22 16:39     ` David S. Miller
2003-08-22 17:41       ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-08-22 17:36         ` David S. Miller
2003-08-22 18:01           ` David S. Miller
2003-08-22 18:34             ` Hugh Dickins
2003-08-22 18:31               ` David S. Miller
2003-08-22 18:56                 ` James Bottomley
2003-08-22 19:19                   ` David S. Miller
2003-08-22 22:27                     ` James Bottomley
2003-08-22 22:41                       ` David S. Miller
2003-08-23  1:09                         ` James Bottomley
2003-08-23  7:22                           ` Hugh Dickins
2003-08-23 15:59                             ` James Bottomley
2003-08-23 21:44                             ` David S. Miller
2003-08-23 21:43                           ` David S. Miller
2003-08-23 22:21                             ` James Bottomley
2003-08-23 22:51                               ` David S. Miller
2003-08-23 23:01                                 ` James Bottomley
2003-08-23 22:53                               ` David S. Miller
2003-08-23 23:11                                 ` James Bottomley
2003-08-24  0:22                                   ` David S. Miller [this message]
     [not found]                                     ` <1061702282.1992.1153.camel@mulgrave>
     [not found]                                       ` <20030823222300.4695a0c4.davem@redhat.com>
2003-08-24 16:54                                         ` James Bottomley
2003-08-22 18:41               ` James Bottomley
2003-08-22 19:02                 ` Hugh Dickins
2003-08-22 19:09                 ` Randolph Chung
2003-08-22 16:42     ` Russell King
2003-08-22 16:39       ` David S. Miller

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