From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, <vrajesh@umich.edu>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/3] radix priority search tree - objrmap complexity fix
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 06:05:47 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0404010549540.28566-100000@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040401020126.GW2143@dualathlon.random>
On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 05:51:13PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > rw_swap_page_sync() is a general-purpose library function and we shouldn't
> > be making assumptions about the type of page which the caller happens to be
> > feeding us.
>
> that is a specialized backdoor to do I/O on _private_ pages, it's not a
> general-purpose library function for doing anonymous pages
I'm not against anal checks (except personally :), but I'm very much
with Andrea on this: rw_swap_page_sync is horrid, but does manage to
do a particular job. The header page is great fun: sys_swapon and
mkswap read and write it by a totally different route, I shudder
(especially when it's a swapfile with blocksize less than pagesize).
It would be nice to make it more general and correct, but that's
not something you should get stuck on right now.
Hugh
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2004-03-21 22:10 ` [RFC][PATCH 1/3] radix priority search tree - objrmap complexity fix Rajesh Venkatasubramanian
2004-03-21 22:12 ` [RFC][PATCH 2/3] Dave & Hugh's objrmap patch Rajesh Venkatasubramanian
2004-03-21 22:13 ` [RFC][PATCH 3/3] Covert objrmap to use prio_tree Rajesh Venkatasubramanian
2004-03-21 22:26 ` URL typo Rajesh Venkatasubramanian
2004-03-22 0:46 ` [RFC][PATCH 1/3] radix priority search tree - objrmap complexity fix Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-22 2:32 ` Rik van Riel
2004-03-22 3:49 ` Rajesh Venkatasubramanian
2004-03-22 4:02 ` Rik van Riel
2004-03-22 4:21 ` put_super for proc Abhishek Rai
2004-03-22 12:04 ` Maneesh Soni
2004-03-25 22:59 ` [RFC][PATCH 1/3] radix priority search tree - objrmap complexity fix Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-26 4:06 ` Rajesh Venkatasubramanian
2004-03-26 7:53 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-26 15:43 ` Rajesh Venkatasubramanian
2004-03-26 17:58 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-27 19:51 ` Rajesh Venkatasubramanian
2004-03-29 17:22 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-29 17:50 ` Rajesh Venkatasubramanian
2004-03-29 18:01 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-29 20:40 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-29 22:24 ` Hugh Dickins
2004-03-29 22:54 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-29 23:08 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-29 22:39 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-29 22:42 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-31 15:07 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-31 15:26 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-31 16:45 ` Hugh Dickins
2004-03-31 17:28 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-01 0:45 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-01 1:22 ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-01 1:26 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-01 1:51 ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-01 2:01 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-01 5:05 ` Hugh Dickins [this message]
2004-04-01 13:35 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-01 15:09 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-01 15:15 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-02 0:15 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-02 0:52 ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-02 1:06 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-02 1:03 ` Hugh Dickins
2004-04-02 1:16 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-02 1:36 ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-02 2:00 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-02 2:08 ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-02 2:22 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-02 6:05 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-04-02 7:07 ` Paul Mackerras
2004-04-02 7:11 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-04-02 15:28 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-02 15:22 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-02 15:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-04-02 15:38 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-02 15:45 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-02 9:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-04-02 10:21 ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2004-04-02 10:55 ` Hugh Dickins
2004-04-02 16:46 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-02 18:59 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-04-02 19:29 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-02 19:54 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-04-02 20:35 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-03 8:40 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-04-03 15:20 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-03 15:59 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-03 17:02 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-05 9:59 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-04-05 12:11 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-04-05 16:08 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-06 4:22 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-06 4:43 ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-06 5:14 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-04-06 21:54 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-07 1:39 ` Nathan Scott
2004-04-06 5:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-04-06 16:01 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-07 1:33 ` Nathan Scott
2004-04-03 17:40 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-03 20:02 ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-03 23:27 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-03 23:46 ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-04 0:40 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-08 19:10 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-04-20 22:29 ` Pavel Machek
2004-04-02 20:13 ` Pavel Machek
2004-04-02 21:42 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-02 21:45 ` Pavel Machek
2004-04-02 21:49 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-29 18:12 ` Hugh Dickins
2004-03-29 18:20 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-29 18:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-03-29 21:30 ` 2.6.5-rc2-aa5 Rajesh Venkatasubramanian
2004-03-29 22:50 ` 2.6.5-rc2-aa5 Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-05 3:14 ` [RFC][PATCH 1/3] radix priority search tree - objrmap complexity fix Rajesh Venkatasubramanian
2004-04-05 4:42 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-26 12:26 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-26 19:18 ` Andrea Arcangeli
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