From: Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@in.ibm.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix O_SYNC speedup for generic_file_write_nolock
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 17:23:53 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041108115353.GA4068@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1099908278.3577.2.camel@laptop.fenrus.org>
On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 11:04:38AM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(sync_page_range_nolock);
>
>
> why adding this export? nothing appears to be using it (AIO isn't a module after all)
>
This doesn't have anything to do with AIO. Filesystems which implement
the equivalent of generic_file_write_nolock may use sync_page_range_nolock
for O_SYNC.
Does that help clarify ?
Regards
Suparna
--
Suparna Bhattacharya (suparna@in.ibm.com)
Linux Technology Center
IBM Software Lab, India
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-08 11:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-08 10:07 [PATCH] Fix O_SYNC speedup for generic_file_write_nolock Suparna Bhattacharya
2004-11-08 10:04 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-11-08 11:53 ` Suparna Bhattacharya [this message]
2004-11-08 12:05 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-11-08 12:32 ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2004-11-08 15:20 ` Joel Becker
2004-11-08 15:31 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-11-08 18:29 ` Joel Becker
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