Re: journaling & VM (was: Re: reiserfs being part of the kernel: it'snot just the code)

From: Hans Reiser (hans@reiser.to)
Date: Wed Jun 07 2000 - 17:28:23 EST

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Juan, while the FS cannot immediately unpin the pages, if pushed into doing so
it can startup the mechanisms to unpin them. The pressure to start those
mechanisms should be proportional to the amount of pages it is hogging.

Memory pressure should have a central pusher and decentralized FS delegated
response to the pushing.

Hans

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