Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Jun 2010 12:30:26 -0400 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] Do not call ->writepage[s] from direct reclaim and use a_ops->writepages() where possible |
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On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 01:33:20PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > Ok, I was under the mistaken impression that filesystems wanted to be > given ranges of pages where possible. Considering that there has been no > reaction to the patch in question from the filesystem people cc'd, I'll > drop the problem for now.
Yes, we'd prefer them if possible. Then again we'd really prefer to get as much I/O as possible from the flusher threads, and not kswapd.
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