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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] duppage
Date: Mon,  9 Jun 2014 09:21:35 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8a89cb0cb2f6a8a0defb3b8af07a407c@brasstown.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOw7k5iytMqATUrz8ss4eiAeVpZCsMMdf1z-Hza4Dvsaocotmg@mail.gmail.com>

> On 8 June 2014 19:37, Charles Forsyth <charles.forsyth@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 8 June 2014 19:15, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
> >
> >> i think it is in the image cache, but .ref >1.
> >
> >
> > but in that case it will still not pio, but make a local writable copy.
>
>
> in fact ref > 1 is the copy-on-write case and in a sense the usual one,
> where the copy is needed.

i'll get back to this.  after looking at the refcounting and thinking
about how imagealloc interacts with image allocation, the locking
scheme in imagereclaim does not make any sense.

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-09 13:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-08 14:53 erik quanstrom
2014-06-08 17:15 ` cinap_lenrek
2014-06-08 17:22 ` Charles Forsyth
2014-06-08 17:34   ` erik quanstrom
2014-06-08 17:50     ` Charles Forsyth
2014-06-08 17:53       ` erik quanstrom
2014-06-08 17:54       ` cinap_lenrek
2014-06-08 18:15         ` erik quanstrom
2014-06-08 18:37           ` Charles Forsyth
2014-06-09  8:23             ` Charles Forsyth
2014-06-09 13:21               ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2014-06-10  1:35               ` erik quanstrom
2014-06-10  3:53                 ` cinap_lenrek
2014-06-10 12:58                   ` erik quanstrom
2014-06-10 13:56                     ` Steve Simon
2014-06-10 15:30                       ` erik quanstrom
2014-06-10 14:06                     ` cinap_lenrek
2014-06-11 18:04           ` erik quanstrom
2014-06-08 17:49   ` cinap_lenrek
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-03-13 23:55 erik quanstrom
2012-02-25  3:29 cinap_lenrek
2012-02-25 20:09 ` Charles Forsyth
2012-02-26  4:13 ` erik quanstrom
2012-02-29 10:31 ` Richard Miller
2012-02-29 14:14   ` cinap_lenrek
2012-02-29 19:35     ` Richard Miller
2012-02-29 19:50       ` cinap_lenrek
2012-03-03  9:58         ` Richard Miller
2012-03-03 19:30           ` cinap_lenrek

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