This is the patch the three previous ones have been leading up to.
It changes the behavior of ReiserFS from loading and caching all the bitmaps
as special, to treating the bitmaps like any other bit of metadata and just
letting the system-wide caches figure out what to hang on to.
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Are you saying that you allow bitmaps to be unloaded? If yes, how about
making that a separate option, and not the default?
Hans
Jeff Mahoney wrote:
This is the patch the three previous ones have been leading up to.
It changes the behavior of ReiserFS from loading and caching all the
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Hans Reiser wrote:
Are you saying that you allow bitmaps to be unloaded? If yes, how about
making that a separate option, and not the default?
They're released, yes. Whether or not they're unloaded is up to the rest
of the system, vm pressure, etc
Jeff Mahoney wrote:
Hans Reiser wrote:
Are you saying that you allow bitmaps to be unloaded? If yes, how about
making that a separate option, and not the default?
They're released, yes. Whether or not they're unloaded is up to the rest
of the system, vm pressure, etc to determine. This
