From: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to reclaim inode pages on demand
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 12:08:19 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aec7e5c30508102008b739a6c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050810101714.147e1333.akpm@osdl.org>
On 8/11/05, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> wrote:
> > The majority of pages I am seeing no longer have page->mapping set. Does
> > this mean they are in the process of being cleared up?
>
> They're just anonymous pages, aren't they? But you said "pages that are
> being used for inodes". Confused.
I thought page->mapping was used by rmap for both inode-backed and
anonymous pages. And the PAGE_MAPPING_ANON bit was used to determine
that page->mapping points to struct anon_vma instead of struct
address_space.
When is page->mapping NULL?
/ magnus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-11 3:08 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
2005-08-10 17:50 ` Dave Hansen
2005-08-10 17:59 ` Mel Gorman
2005-08-11 3:08 ` Magnus Damm [this message]
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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