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On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 09:47:59PM -0700, jshankar wrote: > Hello Hans, > > >Filesystems don't usually wait on the IO to complete before submitting > >more IO in response to the next write() syscall. They can do this by > >batching a whole bunch of operations into one committed transaction. > > > > Is there a timeout mechanism for batching operations. What if certain > operation > is done after the batch operation is executed. Does it mean that the new > operation has to wait. You don't have to wait unless you run out of available non-dirty memory, or issue a call to sync to the disks. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | |||||||||
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