From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to reclaim inode pages on demand
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 10:52:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050810105253.58d8bf0f.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0508101845190.11984@skynet>
Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> wrote:
>
> > Well there are conditions in which mmapped file pages can get converted to
> > anonymous pages due to truncate(), but I have a feeling that we stopped
> > that from happening.
> >
>
> Does that also apply to when a file is unlinked rather than truncated?
Yup. unlink() does truncate if it unlinked the final link.
> In case it is journalling-related, I am going to rerun the tests on an
> ext2 filesystem over the weekend.
Good idea.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-10 17:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-08 15:52 Mel Gorman
2005-08-08 16:08 ` Jörn Engel
2005-08-08 16:23 ` Mel Gorman
2005-08-08 23:08 ` Andrew Morton
2005-08-10 16:32 ` Mel Gorman
2005-08-10 17:17 ` Andrew Morton
2005-08-10 17:27 ` Mel Gorman
2005-08-10 17:40 ` Andrew Morton
2005-08-10 17:51 ` Mel Gorman
2005-08-10 17:52 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2005-08-10 17:50 ` Dave Hansen
2005-08-10 17:59 ` Mel Gorman
2005-08-11 3:08 ` Magnus Damm
2005-08-11 4:44 ` Andrew Morton
2005-08-11 5:43 ` Magnus Damm
2005-08-11 9:09 ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2005-08-11 14:09 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-09 4:06 ` Rik van Riel
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