From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kill flush_dirty_buffers
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 23:19:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010807231941.A4587@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0108062153340J.00294@starship>
On Mon, Aug 06 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> This suggests that buffer flushing needs to be per-device.
Yep, and either stopped as soon as the queue free lists are empty or
done independently per queue. One thought I had was to actually move the
dirty list to the queues (or at least separated) and have the plugs
_pull_ the buffers out instead of the other way around.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-07 21:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-06 17:09 [PATCH] kill flush_dirty_buffers Chris Mason
2001-08-06 18:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-08-06 18:39 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-06 19:53 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-08-07 21:19 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2001-08-06 21:14 ` Chris Mason
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