Re: [PATCH][0/8] (Targeting 2.6.17) Posix memory locking and balancedmlock-LRU semantic

[Nick Piggin]

Nate Diller wrote:

> Might I suggest calling it the long_term_pinned list?  It also might
> be worth putting ramdisk pages on this list, since they cannot be
> written out in response to memory pressure.  This would eliminate the
> need for AOP_WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE.

They are for the ram filesystem, btw. and I don't think you can eliminate
AOP_WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE, because it is needed for a number of reasons (out
of swap space being one).

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