From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: Oliver Xymoron <oxymoron@waste.org>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ext3: kjournald and spun-down disks
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 18:32:42 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BFF06CA.71B99D3C@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3BFEF71A.F32176FE@zip.com.au> <Pine.LNX.4.40.0111231939000.4162-100000@waste.org>
Oliver Xymoron wrote:
>
> > Tell me if this is joyful:
>
> Haven't tried it yet, but I'm afraid I don't see what makes it actually
> sync with the dirty buffer flush. Wouldn't it be better to export a chain
> of flush funcs hung off a timer?
It doesn't sync with kupdate.
If you want to do that, just defeat the journal timer altogether. So:
transaction->t_expires = jiffies + 1000000000;
in get_transaction(). That way, kupdate's write_super() will
run a commit every bdf_prm.b_un.interval jiffies.
-
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-24 2:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-24 1:10 ext3: kjournald and spun-down disks Oliver Xymoron
2001-11-24 1:25 ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-24 1:58 ` Oliver Xymoron
2001-11-24 2:32 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2001-11-26 3:15 ` Oliver Xymoron
2001-11-26 3:34 ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-26 15:22 ` Oliver Xymoron
2001-11-26 23:25 ` Daniel Kobras
2001-11-26 23:40 ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-27 0:18 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-11-27 0:03 ` Andre Hedrick
2001-11-27 0:21 ` Oliver Xymoron
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