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From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
	Russell Cattelan <cattelan@thebarn.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Test12 ll_rw_block error.
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 11:46:12 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001218114612.E21351@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20001215105148.E11931@redhat.com> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0012170027060.28849-100000@freak.distro.conectiva>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0012170027060.28849-100000@freak.distro.conectiva>; from marcelo@conectiva.com.br on Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 12:38:17AM -0200

Hi,

On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 12:38:17AM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> 
> Stephen,
> 
> The ->flush() operation (which we've been discussing a bit) would be very
> useful now (mainly for XFS).
> 
> At page_launder(), we can call ->flush() if the given page has it defined.
> Otherwise use try_to_free_buffers() as we do now for filesystems which
> dont care about the special flushing treatment. 

As of 2.4.0test12, page_launder() will already call the
per-address-space writepage() operation for dirty pages.  Do you need
something similar for clean pages too, or does Linus's new laundry
code give you what you need now?

Cheers,
 Stephen
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  reply	other threads:[~2000-12-18 12:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <3A398F84.2CD3039D@thebarn.com>
2000-12-15  6:20 ` Test12 ll_rw_block error Linus Torvalds
2000-12-15  7:00   ` Alexander Viro
2000-12-15  9:14     ` Chris Mason
2000-12-17  0:54       ` Russell Cattelan
2000-12-17 12:20         ` Chris Mason
2000-12-15 10:51     ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-12-15 19:04       ` Linus Torvalds
2000-12-17  1:08       ` Russell Cattelan
2000-12-18 11:44         ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-12-17  2:38       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2000-12-18 11:46         ` Stephen C. Tweedie [this message]
2000-12-19 14:05           ` Marcelo Tosatti
2000-12-19 16:43             ` Daniel Phillips
2000-12-19 17:18               ` Marcelo Tosatti
2000-12-19 17:40               ` Christoph Hellwig
2000-12-21 23:25           ` [RFC] changes to buffer.c (was Test12 ll_rw_block error) Chris Mason
2000-12-22  0:19             ` Marcelo Tosatti
2000-12-22  2:20               ` Andreas Dilger
2000-12-22  0:38                 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2000-12-22 13:56                   ` Chris Mason
2000-12-22 16:45                     ` Daniel Phillips
2000-12-22 19:35                       ` Chris Mason
2000-12-22 15:07                   ` Chris Mason
2000-12-22 19:52                     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2000-12-22 23:18                       ` Chris Mason
2000-12-22 23:26                         ` Marcelo Tosatti
2000-12-23 18:21                           ` Chris Mason
2000-12-23 19:02                             ` Linus Torvalds
2000-12-23 19:25                               ` Chris Mason
2000-12-23 15:47                         ` Daniel Phillips
2000-12-27  0:57                       ` Chris Mason
2000-12-26 23:18                         ` Marcelo Tosatti
2000-12-27 20:26                         ` Daniel Phillips
2000-12-27 20:49                           ` Chris Mason
2000-12-28 15:49                             ` Daniel Phillips
2000-12-28 19:19                               ` Chris Mason
2000-12-28 19:29                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-12-29 16:03                                   ` Chris Mason
2000-12-29 16:21                                     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2000-12-29 18:33                                       ` Alexander Viro
2001-01-05 15:54                                         ` Chris Mason
2001-01-05 15:43                                           ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-01-05 17:49                                             ` Daniel Phillips
2001-01-05 17:52                                             ` Chris Mason
2001-01-05 19:51                                             ` Chris Mason
2001-01-05 18:32                                               ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-01-05 20:29                                                 ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-05 18:43                                                   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-01-05 20:37                                                     ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-05 21:08                                                 ` Chris Mason
2001-01-05 18:09                                           ` Juergen Schneider
2000-12-29 17:58                                     ` Daniel Phillips
2001-01-02 15:49                                       ` Chris Mason
2000-12-22  1:54             ` Alexander Viro
2000-12-22 13:49               ` Chris Mason
2000-12-17  0:51     ` Test12 ll_rw_block error Russell Cattelan
2000-12-17  0:21   ` Russell Cattelan
2000-12-16  0:58 Jeff Chua
2000-12-16  1:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-12-16 17:13   ` Chris Mason
2000-12-16 19:07     ` Linus Torvalds
2000-12-16 19:35       ` Chris Mason
     [not found] <3A398D58.92BBC9A4@thebarn.com>
2000-12-15  3:28 ` Linus Torvalds
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-12-15  2:02 Russell Cattelan
2000-12-15  2:48 ` Linus Torvalds

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