From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tytso@mit.edu Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] ext4: Use our own write_cache_pages() Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 09:06:26 -0400 Message-ID: <20100525130626.GD5556@thunk.org> References: <1274784852-30502-1-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> <1274784852-30502-4-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, jens.axboe@oracle.com To: Dave Chinner Return-path: Received: from thunk.org ([69.25.196.29]:52820 "EHLO thunker.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753676Ab0EYNGb (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 May 2010 09:06:31 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1274784852-30502-4-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 08:54:09PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: > From: Theodore Ts'o > > Make a copy of write_cache_pages() for the benefit of > ext4_da_writepages(). This allows us to simplify the code some, and > will allow us to further customize the code in future patches. I'm going to be pushing this to Linus shortly, so it's likely you'll be able to drop this from your patch series. I just wanted to give you a heads up about what I was planning on doing, which hopefully simplified your life a little. - Ted