Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 5 Jan 2001 13:43:07 -0200 (BRST) | From | Marcelo Tosatti <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] changes to buffer.c (was Test12 ll_rw_block error) |
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On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Chris Mason wrote:
> > Here's the latest version of the patch, against 2.4.0. The > biggest open issues are what to do with bdflush, since > page_launder could do everything bdflush does.
I think we want to remove flush_dirty_buffers() from bdflush.
While we are trying to be smart and do write clustering at the ->writepage operation, flush_dirty_buffers() is "dumb" and will interfere with the write clustering.
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