Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Apr 2010 14:24:21 +0200 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3] laptop-mode: Make flushes per-device |
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On Sat, Apr 03 2010, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 01:21:35PM -0500, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > One of the features of laptop-mode is that it forces a writeout of dirty > > pages if something else triggers a physical read or write from a device. > > The current implementation flushes pages on all devices, rather than only > > the one that triggered the flush. This patch alters the behaviour so that > > only the recently accessed block device is flushed, preventing other > > disks being spun up for no terribly good reason. > > Hi Jens, > > Can you remember if there were any more issues with this, or can this > version be merged now?
I think it's fine to merge, I'll queue it up for 2.6.35.
-- Jens Axboe
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