From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: downgrade_write replacement in remap_file_pages
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 09:39:49 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0406080937150.31900@evo.osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040608093111.01a910e9.akpm@osdl.org>
On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> So ho-hum. As a first step, David, could you please take a look into
> what's up with downgrade_write()?
One reason why I like Andrea's approach (regardless of downgrade_write())
is that it seems to avoid taking the heavy lock (write) by default.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-08 16:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-08 15:44 Andrea Arcangeli
2004-06-08 16:31 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-08 16:39 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2004-06-08 17:05 ` David Howells
2004-06-08 22:33 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-06-08 19:04 ` David Howells
2004-06-08 19:36 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-08 22:52 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-06-09 12:19 ` [PATCH] A generic_file_sendpage() Alexander Nyberg
2004-06-10 19:49 ` Pavel Machek
2004-06-25 19:19 ` Jörn Engel
2004-06-25 19:46 ` viro
2004-06-25 20:03 ` Jörn Engel
2004-06-26 0:53 ` Trond Myklebust
2004-06-28 11:41 ` Jörn Engel
2004-06-25 20:05 ` Andreas Dilger
2004-06-25 20:09 ` Jörn Engel
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=Pine.LNX.4.58.0406080937150.31900@evo.osdl.org \
--to=torvalds@osdl.org \
--cc=akpm@osdl.org \
--cc=andrea@suse.de \
--cc=dhowells@redhat.com \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox
all inboxes | Powered by JetHome®