Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 15 May 2008 10:42:15 -0700 (PDT) | | From | Christoph Lameter <> | | Subject | Re: [patch 10/21] buffer heads: Support slab defrag | |
On Mon, 12 May 2008, David Chinner wrote:
> If you are going to clean bufferheads (or pages), please clean entire
> mappings via ->writepages as it leads to far superior I/O patterns
> and a far higher aggregate rate of page cleaning.....
That brings up another issue: Lets say I use writepages on a large file
(couple of gig). How much do you want to write back?
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