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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: jens.axboe@oracle.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] laptop-mode: Make flushes per-device
Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 18:10:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100403171022.GB11397@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1260901295-1821-1-git-send-email-mjg@redhat.com>

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 01:21:35PM -0500, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> One of the features of laptop-mode is that it forces a writeout of dirty
> pages if something else triggers a physical read or write from a device.
> The current implementation flushes pages on all devices, rather than only
> the one that triggered the flush. This patch alters the behaviour so that
> only the recently accessed block device is flushed, preventing other
> disks being spun up for no terribly good reason.

Hi Jens,

Can you remember if there were any more issues with this, or can this 
version be merged now?

Thanks,
-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-03 17:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-11 16:08 [PATCH] laptop-mode: Make flushes per-device Matthew Garrett
2009-12-11 16:44 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-12-11 17:54   ` Matthew Garrett
2009-12-12 12:24     ` Jens Axboe
2009-12-14 19:05       ` Matthew Garrett
2009-12-14 19:08         ` Jens Axboe
2009-12-14 19:48           ` [PATCH v2] " Matthew Garrett
2009-12-14 19:58             ` Jens Axboe
2009-12-14 20:54               ` Matthew Garrett
2009-12-15 18:21               ` [PATCH v3] " Matthew Garrett
2010-04-03 17:10                 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2010-04-06 12:24                   ` Jens Axboe

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