Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2000 08:06:17 +0200 (CEST) From: Marius Bendiksen <mbendiks@eunet.no> To: Christopher Stein <stein@eecs.harvard.edu> Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how mmap buffer writes handled? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10009090805310.63380-100000@login-1.eunet.no> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.20.0009081112550.25120-100000@wally>
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> dirtied by mmap moved onto the dirty queue? IS this done > synchronously by some kind of software intercept of the > page table operations or are the buffers moved from the > clean to dirty queues in the background? As I recall, a periodic scan of the "modified" bits of the various page table entries will be made, and the buffers will be dirtied accordingly as the scan completes. Marius To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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