On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 04:28:08PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 1 Sep 2011 17:24:17 +0200 > Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Ideally direct-io should stop calling get_page() on pages > > returned by get_user_pages(). > > Yeah. get_user_pages() is sufficient. Ideally we should be able to > undo the get_user_pages() get_page() from within the IO completion > interrupt and we're done. > > Cc Andi, who is our resident dio tweaker ;) > Noted, I'll put it on my list. Should not be too difficult from a quick look, just the convoluted nature of direct-io.c requires a lot of double checking. -Andi -- ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Speaking for myself only. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>