Re: [PATCH -mm 14/24] Ramfs and Ram Disk pages are unevictable

[Rik van Riel]

On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:37:56 +1000
Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > > This isn't the case for brd any longer. It doesn't use the buffer
> > > cache as its backing store, so the buffer cache is reclaimable.

> > I know that pages of files that got paged into the page
> > cache from the ramdisk can be evicted (back to the ram
> > disk), but how do the brd pages themselves behave?
> 
> They are not reclaimable. But they have nothing (directly) to do
> with brd's i_mapping address space, nor are they put on any LRU
> lists.

Ahhhh, doh!

I'm mailing Andrew a patch right now that undoes the
brd.c part of patch 14/24. The ramdisk part is correct
and should stay (afaict).

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