From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754726Ab2EaUoI (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 May 2012 16:44:08 -0400 Received: from mail-pz0-f46.google.com ([209.85.210.46]:40321 "EHLO mail-pz0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751951Ab2EaUoG (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 May 2012 16:44:06 -0400 From: Paolo Bonzini To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH 0/2] msync improvements Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 22:43:53 +0200 Message-Id: <1338497035-13014-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.10.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org These two patches are improvements on the implementation of the msync system call. To give some context, I found them while working on the implementation of a persistent dirty bitmap. Paolo Bonzini (2): msync: support syncing a small part of the file msync: start async writeout when MS_ASYNC include/linux/fs.h | 3 +- mm/fadvise.c | 2 +- mm/filemap.c | 11 +++++--- mm/msync.c | 63 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------- 4 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)