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    SubjectRe: Possible Idea with filesystem buffering.
    Hans Reiser wrote:
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    > So is there a consensus view that we need 2 calls, one to write a
    > particular page, and one to exert memory pressure, and the call to write
    > a particular page should only be used when we really need to write that
    > particular page?
    >

    Note that writepage() doesn't get used much. Most VM-initiated
    filesystem writeback activity is via try_to_release_page(), which
    has somewhat more vague and flexible semantics.

    And by bdflush, which I suspect tends to conflict with sync_page_buffers()
    under pressure. But that's a different problem.

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