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Re: [RFC] using writepage to start io

To: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] using writepage to start io
From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 03:01:17 +0200
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, torvalds@transmeta.com
In-Reply-To: <233400000.996606471@tiny>
References: <233400000.996606471@tiny>
Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org

Hi, Chris

On Tuesday 31 July 2001 21:07, Chris Mason wrote:
> I had to keep some of the flush_dirty_buffer calls as page_launder
> wasn't triggering enough i/o on its own.  What I'd like to do now is
> experiment with changing bdflush to only write pages off the inactive
> dirty lists.

Will kupdate continue to enforce the "no dirty buffer older than 
XX" guarantee?

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