Messages in this thread | | | From | David Howells <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 05/18] [PATCH] BLOCK: Don't call block_sync_page() from AFS [try #4] | Date | Tue, 29 Aug 2006 13:25:08 +0100 |
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Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> AFS never sets a backing_dev_info on it's own and thus uses > &default_backing_dev_info which sets the unplug_io_fn to > default_unplug_io_fn. default_unplug_io_fn is a no-op, and thus > block_sync_page does nothing for AFS.
I'm sure I used to require this for when there was a local cache on disk. Maybe things have changed, or maybe I'm misremembering.
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