Re: [RFC] using writepage to start io

Chris Mason
2001-08-01T02:07:33Z

On Wednesday, August 01, 2001 03:01:17 AM +0200 Daniel Phillips
<phillips@bonn-fries.net> wrote:

> Hi, Chris
>
> On Tuesday 31 July 2001 21:07, Chris Mason wrote:
>> I had to keep some of the flush_dirty_buffer calls as page_launder
>> wasn't triggering enough i/o on its own. What I'd like to do now is
>> experiment with changing bdflush to only write pages off the inactive
>> dirty lists.
>
> Will kupdate continue to enforce the "no dirty buffer older than
> XX" guarantee?

Yes, kupdate still calls flush_dirty_buffers(1). I'm curious to see how
your write early stuff interacts with it all though....

-chris