Re: direct_access, pinning and truncation

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> > Maybe in the allocator you skip otherwise free blocks if they intersect
> > with the run time structure (rbtree of extents, presumably) that is
> > taking the place of reference counts in struct page.  There aren't
> > *that* many allocator entry points.  I guess you'd need to avoid other
> > modifications of free space like trimming :/.  It still seems reasonably
> > doable?
> 
> Ah, so on reboot, the on-disk data structures are all correct, and
> the in-memory data structures went away with the runtime pinning of
> the memory.  Nice.

Yeah, that's what I was picturing.  The part I'm most fuzzy on is how to
get current g_u_p() callers consuming the mappings without full struct
pages.

- z
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