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From: Nikita Danilov <Nikita@Namesys.COM>
Subject: Re: Implementing writepage
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 11:52:05 +0300
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To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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David Woodhouse writes:
 > On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 11:43 +0300, Nikita Danilov wrote:
 > > By write(2)? May be I am missing something in this discussion, though.
 > 
 > Either your commit_write() is synchronous or it does what writepage()
 > would do anyway... which is to start the I/O but not wait for it.

I don't quite follow why. generic_commit_write() only marks buffers
dirty. Actual IO is started by either ->writepages() called from within
balance_dirty_pages() (or pdflush) or by ->writepage() called by VM
scanner.

 > 
 > -- 
 > dwmw2
 > 

Nikita.