Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Jan 2002 17:03:02 -0200 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: Possible Idea with filesystem buffering. |
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On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Andrew Morton wrote: > Hans Reiser wrote: > > > > 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.
We may want to change this though, or at the very least get rid of the horrible interplay between ->writepage and try_to_release_page() ...
regards,
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