Re: downgrade_write replacement in remap_file_pages

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> So ho-hum.  As a first step, David, could you please take a look into
> what's up with downgrade_write()?

One reason why I like Andrea's approach (regardless of downgrade_write()) 
is that it seems to avoid taking the heavy lock (write) by default. 

		Linus
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