From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 23:19:41 +0200 From: Jens Axboe Subject: Re: [PATCH] kill flush_dirty_buffers Message-ID: <20010807231941.A4587@suse.de> References: <0108062153340J.00294@starship> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <0108062153340J.00294@starship> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Daniel Phillips Cc: Rik van Riel , Linus Torvalds , Chris Mason , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Mon, Aug 06 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote: > This suggests that buffer flushing needs to be per-device. Yep, and either stopped as soon as the queue free lists are empty or done independently per queue. One thought I had was to actually move the dirty list to the queues (or at least separated) and have the plugs _pull_ the buffers out instead of the other way around. -- Jens Axboe -- 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/