Andrew Morton wrote:
What do we actually want the kernel to *do*? Stated in terms of "when the dirty memory state is A, do B" and "when userspace does C, the kernel should do D".
When we have dirty pages awaiting write-out, and the write-out device is completely idle, then we should be writing them out. That's the easy bit taken care of. ;) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
