Re: [RFC] using writepage to start io

Alexander Viro
2001-07-28T16:18:23Z

On Sat, 28 Jul 2001, Chris Mason wrote:

>
> Hello everyone,
>
> This is an rfc only, as the code has only been _lightly_ tested. I'll
> do more tests/benchmarks next week.
>
> This patch changes fs/buffer.c to use writepage to start i/o,
> instead of writing buffers directly. It also changes refile_buffer
> to mark the page dirty when marking buffers dirty.

->writepage() unlocks the page upon completion. How do you deal with that?