From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 17:55:26 -0500 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: 2.5.50-mm2 Message-ID: <20021213175526.C2581@sgi.com> References: <3DF453C8.18B24E66@digeo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3DF453C8.18B24E66@digeo.com>; from akpm@digeo.com on Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 12:26:48AM -0800 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: lkml , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 12:26:48AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > +remove-PF_SYNC.patch > > remove the current->flags:PF_SYNC abomination. Adds a `sync' arg to > all writepage implementations to tell them whether they are being > called for memory cleansing or for data integrity. Any chance you could pass down a struct writeback_control instead of just the sync flag? XFS always used ->writepage similar to the ->vm_writeback in older kernel releases because writing out more than one page of delalloc space is really needed to be efficient and this would allow us to get a few more hints about the VM's intentions. -- 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/