From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda1.sgi.com [192.48.157.11]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id o4PMesT3045610 for ; Tue, 25 May 2010 17:40:54 -0500 Received: from mail.internode.on.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 8E33FA4C0BD for ; Tue, 25 May 2010 15:44:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.internode.on.net (bld-mail17.adl2.internode.on.net [150.101.137.102]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id JgW1z3Uy7u2n1kLo for ; Tue, 25 May 2010 15:44:55 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 08:42:59 +1000 From: Dave Chinner Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] ext4: Use our own write_cache_pages() Message-ID: <20100525224259.GM2150@dastard> References: <1274784852-30502-1-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> <1274784852-30502-4-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> <20100525130626.GD5556@thunk.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100525130626.GD5556@thunk.org> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: tytso@mit.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, jens.axboe@oracle.com On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 09:06:26AM -0400, tytso@mit.edu wrote: > 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. Great! > I just wanted to give > you a heads up about what I was planning on doing, which hopefully > simplified your life a little. And that's appreciated. I included it to make sure everyone could see how this all fitted together and others could test it if they so desired. i.e. make sure I wasn't breaking ext4 by reverting the changes to write_cache_pages. I'll leave it in the series until the ext4 change is upstream, then I'll drop it. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs