"Brent W. Baccala" <cos...@freesoft.org> writes:
> Second, I can't find anywhere in the hurd source tree where this function
> is actually used.
Commit 84cf9c0f312637b670cc87224ff7e7c4da659e36 on 2013-09-17
removed the ufs directory, in which the offer_data function used
to call pager_offer_page. The last argument of pager_offer_page
always pointed to a page that was part of the global zeroblock,
which was the size of a filesystem block and filled with zeroes.
> Third, why would we want this feature? Why would a memory server ever want
> to send an unsolicited page to a client?
One of the offer_data calls was preceded by a comment:
/* Make sure that any pages of this block which just became allocated
don't get paged in from disk. */
I don't know how ext2fs makes sure of that, or whether
pager_offer_page might again be needed for the same purpose in
the future.
