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From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
To: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] using writepage to start io
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On Sat, 28 Jul 2001, Chris Mason wrote:

> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
> This is an rfc only, as the code has only been _lightly_ tested.  I'll
> do more tests/benchmarks next week.
> 
> This patch changes fs/buffer.c to use writepage to start i/o,
> instead of writing buffers directly.  It also changes refile_buffer
> to mark the page dirty when marking buffers dirty.

->writepage() unlocks the page upon completion. How do you deal with that?