On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > When working with single pages it's more efficient and preferable to > call invalidate_page and only later release the VM reference on the > page.
But as you pointed out before that path is a slow path anyways. Its rarely taken. Having a single eviction callback simplifies design. Plus the device driver can still check if the mapping was of PAGE_SIZE and then implement its own optimization. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
