>>>>> "linus" == Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> writes:
linus> On 11 May 2000, Juan J. Quintela wrote:
>> - we change one page_cache_release to put_page in truncate_inode_pages
>> (people find lost when they see a get_page without the correspondent
>> put_page, and put_page and page_cache_release are synonimops)
linus> put_page() is _not_ synonymous with page_cache_release()!
linus> Imagine a time in the not too distant future when the page cache
linus> granularity is 8kB or 16kB due to better IO performance (possibly
linus> controlled by a config option), and page_cache_release() will do an
linus> "order=1" or "order=2" page free..
Linus, I agree with you here, but we do a get_page 5 lines before, I
think that if I do a get_page I should do a put_page to liberate it.
But I can be wrong, and then I would like to know if in the future, it
could be posible to do a get_page and liberate it with a
page_cache_release? That was my point. Sorry for the bad wording.
Later, Juan.
PD. As always, I apreciate a lot your comments.
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