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From: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 2.6.20 1/2] fbdev, mm: Deferred IO support
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 23:01:31 +0900
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To: Jaya Kumar <jayakumar.lkml@gmail.com>
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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.

Jaya, can you roll the fsync() patch in to your defio patch? There's not
much point in keeping them separate.