Re: DANGER: DONT apply it. Re: [patch] ext2nolock-2.2.8-A0

["Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>]

Hi,

On Mon, 17 May 1999 01:35:49 -0400 (EDT), Ingo Molnar
<mingo@redhat.com> said:

>> > cool. i'm now working on the writepage stuff, i'll debug your patch (and
>> > maybe extend it to SMP) if that one is stable. 
>> 
>> You know that Eric Beiderman posted a page write patch for recent 2.2s
>> just recently on linux-mm?

> does it make ext2fs work on the page cache exclusively? Could you forward
> that patch to me just in case you have it handy. I have my patch working
> almost, i just have some small instabilities like kernel oopses and casual
> filesystem corruption to sort out ;)

Well, I'm just back from LE and it looks like Eric isn't hanging
around.  Eric, thanks for liaising with Ingo on this, I know he's been
itching to benchmark things with a decent page cache.  Do you know if
these are likely to be accepted for 2.3 soon?

--Stephen
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