I still can't make any sense of this description.  What is an external
agent?  Userspace obviously can't ever see a change in the extent
map, so it can't be meant.

It would help a lot if you could come up with a concrete user for this,
including example code.

--
To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in
the body to majordomo@kvack.org.  For more info on Linux MM,
see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ .
Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@kvack.org"> email@kvack.org </a>