Re: [PATCH 0/3] Unmapped page cache control (v5)

2011-04-03 Thread Dave Chinner
success in all cases. And to state the obvious: doing allocation before the critical section will trigger reclaim if necessary so there is no need to have the application trigger reclaim. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner da...@fromorbit.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe kvm

Re: [PATCH 0/3] Unmapped page cache control (v5)

2011-04-01 Thread Dave Chinner
. IMO, you should tell the people requesting stuff like this to architect their critical sections according to best practices. Hacking the VM to try to work around badly designed applications is a sure recipe for disaster... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner da...@fromorbit.com -- To unsubscribe from

Re: [PATCH 0/3] Unmapped page cache control (v5)

2011-03-31 Thread Dave Chinner
and doesn't require any new complexity inside the host OS to acheive... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner da...@fromorbit.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe kvm in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo

Re: [PATCH 0/3] Unmapped page cache control (v5)

2011-03-31 Thread Dave Chinner
On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 08:38:11AM +0530, Balbir Singh wrote: * Dave Chinner da...@fromorbit.com [2011-04-01 08:40:33]: On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:00:26AM +0530, Balbir Singh wrote: The following series implements page cache control, this is a split out version of patch 1 of version