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From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: Tobias Ringstrom <tori@ringstrom.mine.nu>,
	Simon Kirby <sim@netnation.com>,
	Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.4.11pre4 swapping out all over the place
Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2001 13:56:20 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0110071347390.8020-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0110071031160.7151-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>



On Sun, 7 Oct 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> > I just noticed that when reading from an umounted block device, the pages
> > are not cached between runs, i.e. the cache is dropped on close().  If the
> > block device contains a mounted filesystem, the pages are not dropped.
> > Is this intentional?

Actually, they are dropped as soon as there's no openers left.  mounted
fs counts as opener, so does opened file.

> It's intentional, although something that can probably be discussed. The
> reasons for it are:
>  - devices with broken or unreliable disk change mechanisms
>  - the current dynamic [de-]allocation of block device data structures.
>  - historical coherency reasons.
 
   - current logics for driver use count.  Block ones do MOD_INC_US_COUNT
on->open() and MOD_DEC_USE_COUNT on ->release().


  reply	other threads:[~2001-10-07 17:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-06  8:06 Simon Kirby
2001-10-06  8:59 ` Tobias Ringstrom
2001-10-06 16:09   ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-06 17:49     ` Tobias Ringstrom
2001-10-06 21:59       ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-07  4:59         ` Simon Kirby
2001-10-07  7:43         ` Tobias Ringstrom
2001-10-07 17:39           ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-07 17:56             ` Alexander Viro [this message]
2001-10-07  4:57       ` David S. Miller
2001-10-06 22:52 ` Andrea Arcangeli

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