Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 18 Dec 2000 11:46:12 +0000 | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Subject | Re: Test12 ll_rw_block error. |
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Hi,
On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 12:38:17AM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > > Stephen, > > The ->flush() operation (which we've been discussing a bit) would be very > useful now (mainly for XFS). > > At page_launder(), we can call ->flush() if the given page has it defined. > Otherwise use try_to_free_buffers() as we do now for filesystems which > dont care about the special flushing treatment.
As of 2.4.0test12, page_launder() will already call the per-address-space writepage() operation for dirty pages. Do you need something similar for clean pages too, or does Linus's new laundry code give you what you need now?
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