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Subject: Re: nfs unhappiness with memory pressure
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On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 16:42 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:

> writepage should as well, then it would have a better chance
> of just doing the right thing.

writepage triggers a stable write of the page (i.e. the page is written
directly to disk) if asked to reclaim it.

If the VM wants the unstable writes from the mapping to be committed, it
should call writepages.

Cheers,
  Trond