Re: mpage_readpage()

2008-11-20 Thread Peter Teoh
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:17 PM, ruby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the reply and effort of trying this out. > would you mind spelling out the full ftrace command you used? > depends on what u wanti think it is better for u to fully understand the usage and meaning of this new techn

Re: mpage_readpage()

2008-11-20 Thread ruby
object at some point when you do a syscall on read. for ext3, it will be ext3_readpage, which ask mpage_readpage() to do the job. what I don't follow is why the function doc right before mapge_readpage() claims "This isn't called much at all". These are the caller I can f

Re: mpage_readpage()

2008-11-18 Thread Peter Teoh
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 1:06 AM, Ruby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, all > > as I understand, ->readpage() will be invoked on address space object at > some point when you do a syscall on read. > for ext3, it will be ext3_readpage, which ask mpage_readpage() to do the

Re: mpage_readpage()

2008-11-18 Thread ruby
. > for ext3, it will be ext3_readpage, which ask mpage_readpage() to do the > job. > > what I don't follow is why the function doc right before mapge_readpage() > claims "This isn't called much at all". > > is this not on the primary read I/O path anymore? > > > thanks > > Ruby >

mpage_readpage()

2008-11-17 Thread Ruby
hi, all as I understand, ->readpage() will be invoked on address space object at some point when you do a syscall on read. for ext3, it will be ext3_readpage, which ask mpage_readpage() to do the job. what I don't follow is why the function doc right before mapge_readpage() claims &qu