From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b38so481707ana for ; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 15:44:15 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 07:44:15 +0800 From: "Antonino Daplas" Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH/RFC 2.6.20 1/2] fbdev, mm: Deferred IO support In-Reply-To: <20070301140131.GA6603@linux-sh.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070225051312.17454.80741.sendpatchset@localhost> <20070301140131.GA6603@linux-sh.org> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Paul Mundt , Jaya Kumar , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton List-ID: On 3/1/07, Paul Mundt wrote: > On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 06:13:12AM +0100, Jaya Kumar wrote: > > This patch implements deferred IO support in fbdev. Deferred IO is a way to > > delay and repurpose IO. This implementation is done using mm's page_mkwrite > > and page_mkclean hooks in order to detect, delay and then rewrite IO. This > > functionality is used by hecubafb. > > > Any updates on this? If there are no other concerns, it would be nice to > at least get this in to -mm for testing if nothing else. The driver is already in the -mm tree. > > Jaya, can you roll the fsync() patch in to your defio patch? There's not > much point in keeping them separate. The fsync() patch was not included by Jaya, I believe. Tony -- 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/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org