Re: Linux 2.6.29

Jeff Garzik
2009-04-03T23:31:19Z

David Rees wrote:
> The *only* reason MythTV fsyncs (or fdatasyncs) the data to disk all
> the time is to keep a large amount of dirty pages from building up and
> then causing horrible latencies when that data starts getting flushed
> to disk.

sync_file_range() will definitely help that situation.

Jeff