From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>,
Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
Russell Cattelan <cattelan@thebarn.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Test12 ll_rw_block error.
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 11:46:12 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001218114612.E21351@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20001215105148.E11931@redhat.com> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0012170027060.28849-100000@freak.distro.conectiva>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0012170027060.28849-100000@freak.distro.conectiva>; from marcelo@conectiva.com.br on Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 12:38:17AM -0200
Hi,
On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 12:38:17AM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
>
> Stephen,
>
> The ->flush() operation (which we've been discussing a bit) would be very
> useful now (mainly for XFS).
>
> At page_launder(), we can call ->flush() if the given page has it defined.
> Otherwise use try_to_free_buffers() as we do now for filesystems which
> dont care about the special flushing treatment.
As of 2.4.0test12, page_launder() will already call the
per-address-space writepage() operation for dirty pages. Do you need
something similar for clean pages too, or does Linus's new laundry
code give you what you need now?
Cheers,
Stephen
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Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <3A398F84.2CD3039D@thebarn.com>
2000-12-15 6:20 ` Test12 ll_rw_block error Linus Torvalds
2000-12-15 7:00 ` Alexander Viro
2000-12-15 9:14 ` Chris Mason
2000-12-17 0:54 ` Russell Cattelan
2000-12-17 12:20 ` Chris Mason
2000-12-15 10:51 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-12-15 19:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-12-17 1:08 ` Russell Cattelan
2000-12-18 11:44 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-12-17 2:38 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2000-12-18 11:46 ` Stephen C. Tweedie [this message]
2000-12-19 14:05 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2000-12-19 16:43 ` Daniel Phillips
2000-12-19 17:18 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2000-12-19 17:40 ` Christoph Hellwig
2000-12-21 23:25 ` [RFC] changes to buffer.c (was Test12 ll_rw_block error) Chris Mason
2000-12-22 0:19 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2000-12-22 2:20 ` Andreas Dilger
2000-12-22 0:38 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2000-12-22 13:56 ` Chris Mason
2000-12-22 16:45 ` Daniel Phillips
2000-12-22 19:35 ` Chris Mason
2000-12-22 15:07 ` Chris Mason
2000-12-22 19:52 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2000-12-22 23:18 ` Chris Mason
2000-12-22 23:26 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2000-12-23 18:21 ` Chris Mason
2000-12-23 19:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-12-23 19:25 ` Chris Mason
2000-12-23 15:47 ` Daniel Phillips
2000-12-27 0:57 ` Chris Mason
2000-12-26 23:18 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2000-12-27 20:26 ` Daniel Phillips
2000-12-27 20:49 ` Chris Mason
2000-12-28 15:49 ` Daniel Phillips
2000-12-28 19:19 ` Chris Mason
2000-12-28 19:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-12-29 16:03 ` Chris Mason
2000-12-29 16:21 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2000-12-29 18:33 ` Alexander Viro
2001-01-05 15:54 ` Chris Mason
2001-01-05 15:43 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-01-05 17:49 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-01-05 17:52 ` Chris Mason
2001-01-05 19:51 ` Chris Mason
2001-01-05 18:32 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-01-05 20:29 ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-05 18:43 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-01-05 20:37 ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-05 21:08 ` Chris Mason
2001-01-05 18:09 ` Juergen Schneider
2000-12-29 17:58 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-01-02 15:49 ` Chris Mason
2000-12-22 1:54 ` Alexander Viro
2000-12-22 13:49 ` Chris Mason
2000-12-17 0:51 ` Test12 ll_rw_block error Russell Cattelan
2000-12-17 0:21 ` Russell Cattelan
2000-12-16 0:58 Jeff Chua
2000-12-16 1:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-12-16 17:13 ` Chris Mason
2000-12-16 19:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-12-16 19:35 ` Chris Mason
[not found] <3A398D58.92BBC9A4@thebarn.com>
2000-12-15 3:28 ` Linus Torvalds
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2000-12-15 2:02 Russell Cattelan
2000-12-15 2:48 ` Linus Torvalds
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