Re: poke_pages function in ext2fs:truncate.c

2011-10-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Sergio López, le Sat 08 Oct 2011 01:37:07 +0200, a écrit : > Until then, I think an easy optimization like annotating if an object > has been mmap'ed sometime in its lifetime to decide if poking pages is > really needed could be really useful. Knowing it's just a workaround, > a patch like this wou

Re: poke_pages function in ext2fs:truncate.c

2011-10-07 Thread Sergio López
2011/9/13 Sergio López : > Hi, > > Does somebody know the reasoning behind the function "poke_pages" in > ext2fs:truncate.c? I suppose it's there to work around some kind of > memory object paging error in GNU Mach, but I'm not sure about it's > real purpose, or if it's still needed nowadays. > An