From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from dukat.scot.redhat.com (sct@dukat.scot.redhat.com [195.89.149.246]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA06174 for ; Tue, 25 May 1999 17:43:15 -0400 From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14155.6480.319372.615650@dukat.scot.redhat.com> Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 22:42:40 +0100 (BST) Subject: Re: DANGER: DONT apply it. Re: [patch] ext2nolock-2.2.8-A0 In-Reply-To: References: <14142.57697.49520.664805@worf.scot.redhat.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Ingo Molnar Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" , linux-mm@kvack.org, "Eric W. Biederman" List-ID: Hi, On Mon, 17 May 1999 01:35:49 -0400 (EDT), Ingo Molnar said: >> > cool. i'm now working on the writepage stuff, i'll debug your patch (and >> > maybe extend it to SMP) if that one is stable. >> >> You know that Eric Beiderman posted a page write patch for recent 2.2s >> just recently on linux-mm? > does it make ext2fs work on the page cache exclusively? Could you forward > that patch to me just in case you have it handy. I have my patch working > almost, i just have some small instabilities like kernel oopses and casual > filesystem corruption to sort out ;) Well, I'm just back from LE and it looks like Eric isn't hanging around. Eric, thanks for liaising with Ingo on this, I know he's been itching to benchmark things with a decent page cache. Do you know if these are likely to be accepted for 2.3 soon? --Stephen -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm my@address' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://humbolt.geo.uu.nl/Linux-MM/