From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Woodhouse In-Reply-To: References: Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove page_launder() from bdflush Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 11:05:50 +0100 Message-ID: <8889.989921150@redhat.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Marcelo Tosatti Cc: Linus Torvalds , lkml , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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. -- dwmw2 -- 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.eu.org/Linux-MM/