On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 02:40:34PM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 02:38:03PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote: > > On 09/20/2011 10:25 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > >In addition to regular write shouldn't __do_fault and do_wp_page also > > >calls this if they are called on file backed mappings? > > > > Probably not do_wp_page since it always creates an > > anonymous page, which are not very relevant to the > > dirty page cache accounting. > > Well, it doesn't always - but for the case where it doesn't we > do not allocate a new page at all so you're right in the end :) I think it could be useful to annotate write-fault allocations in filemap_fault(), but these pages are mostly allocated in the readahead code, so this could turn into a more invasive project. It can be done incrementally, however, the series as it stands does not require it to be useful. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
