Re: [PATCH 0/7] Kill PF_MEMALLOC abuse

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue Nov 17 2009 - 05:27:09 EST


On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 07:24:42PM +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> if xfsbufd doesn't only write out dirty data but also drop page,
> I agree you.

It then drops the reference to the buffer which drops references to the
pages, which often are the last references, yes.

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