Re: [PATCH 00/19] periodic write-back timer optimization

Jens Axboe
2009-05-28T08:19:02Z

On Thu, May 28 2009, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> Jens Axboe wrote:
>> That would be great, I would have no problem integrating such a feature.
>> It definitely makes sense.
>
> Hi Al, Christoph,
>
> unless you have objections against the whole idea, I wonder if
> it would be possible to make the patches which wrap sb->s_dirt
> usage go via VFS tree first, and then I'd continue the timer
> optimization work separately. IMO, wrapping s_dirt makes sense
> in general. I mean, patches 01-17 from this series.

That makese sense, those are totally separate from the actual
functionality.

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Jens Axboe