On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 11:16 -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > > Also, suppose it was still in the page-cache and still dirty, a steal() > > would then punch a hole in the file. > > page_cache_pipe_buf_steal starts by doing a wait_on_page_writeback(page); and > then does a try_to_release_page(page, GFP_KERNEL). Only if that succeeds is the > action of stealing succeeding. If you're going to wait for writeback I don't really see the advantage of stealing over simply allocating a new page. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href