From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
Cc: Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>,
keitha@edp.fastfreenet.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bdflush flushing memory mapped pages.
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 11:33:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030409093347.GA1227@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030409022726.1ec93a0f.akpm@digeo.com>
On Wed, Apr 09 2003, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Funny you mention this point!
> >
> > I just spent 30-45 minutes on the phone talking to Jens about this very
> > issue. Jens states he can map the model in to 2.5. and will give it a
> > fling in a bit. This issue is a must; however, I had given up on the idea
> > until 2.7. However, the issues he and I addressed, in combination to your
> > request jive in sync.
>
> noooo..... This isn't going to happen. There are many reasons.
[snip]
This isn't Andres point at all. He wants a way to defer completion of
requests to the block layer until you actually know they are on platter.
I think he just tied it into this thread because it sort-of deals with
deferred errors as well.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-09 9:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-09 19:20 bdflush flushing memory mapped pages Keith Ansell
2003-04-09 9:13 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-04-09 9:27 ` Andrew Morton
2003-04-09 9:33 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2003-04-10 20:09 ` Keith Ansell
2003-04-10 8:16 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-04-10 9:02 ` Nick Piggin
2003-04-10 17:04 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-09 9:22 ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-04-09 10:39 ` Alan Cox
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