From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 15 May 2001 06:06:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 15 May 2001 06:06:22 -0400 Received: from t2.redhat.com ([199.183.24.243]:52719 "EHLO passion.cambridge.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 15 May 2001 06:06:13 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3 01/15/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 From: David Woodhouse X-Accept-Language: en_GB In-Reply-To: In-Reply-To: To: Marcelo Tosatti Cc: Linus Torvalds , lkml , linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove page_launder() from bdflush Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 11:05:50 +0100 Message-ID: <8889.989921150@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org marcelo@conectiva.com.br said: > There is no reason why bdflush should call page_launder(). > Its pretty obvious that bdflush's job is to only write out _buffers_. > Under my tests this patch makes things faster. Oh good. ISTR last time I looked at implementing CONFIG_BLK_DEV I got as far as trying to remove bdflush() before getting confused at finding page_launder() in it, and going on to more important things. -- dwmw2