Re: Preventing a cached changed page from being written

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On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 4:33 AM, Peter Teoh <htmldeveloper@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> To the best I know, you can only lock anonymous page...
>>
>
> interesting....never knew that....do u know (or guess) why?

It is based on my assumption that anonymous page doesn't have backing
storage, thus it's kinda make sense if we want to lock it in RAM.

While for page cache, theoritically we aren't supposed to lock it.
However, to me, what Paulo already did bring new dimension of thinking
:)

regards,

Mulyadi

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