From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove page_launder() from bdflush
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 11:05:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8889.989921150@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105150134190.32493-100000@freak.distro.conectiva>
marcelo@conectiva.com.br said:
> There is no reason why bdflush should call page_launder().
> Its pretty obvious that bdflush's job is to only write out _buffers_.
> Under my tests this patch makes things faster.
Oh good. ISTR last time I looked at implementing CONFIG_BLK_DEV I got as far
as trying to remove bdflush() before getting confused at finding
page_launder() in it, and going on to more important things.
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2001-05-15 4:41 Marcelo Tosatti
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