From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: Jeff Chua <jeffchua@silk.corp.fedex.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Test12 ll_rw_block error.
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 17:12:36 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10012151711180.1325-100000@penguin.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200012160058.eBG0wtr29000@silk.corp.fedex.com>
On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, Jeff Chua wrote:
>
> > Now, I also agree that we should be able to clean this up properly for
> > 2.5.x, and actually do exactly this for the anonymous buffers, so that
> > the VM no longer needs to worry about buffer knowledge, and fs/buffer.c
> > becomes just another user of the writepage functionality. That is not
> > all that hard to do, it mainly just requires some small changes to how
>
> Why not incorporate this change into 2.4.x?
It might be 10 lines of change, and obviously correct.
And it might not be. If somebody wants to try out the DirtyPage approach
for buffer handling, please do so. I'll apply it if it _does_ turn out to
be as small as I suspect it might be, and if the code is straightforward
and obvious.
If not, we're better off leaving it for 2.5.x
Linus
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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-12-16 0:58 Test12 ll_rw_block error Jeff Chua
2000-12-16 1:12 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2000-12-16 17:13 ` Chris Mason
2000-12-16 19:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-12-16 19:35 ` Chris Mason
[not found] <3A398F84.2CD3039D@thebarn.com>
2000-12-15 6:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-12-15 7:00 ` Alexander Viro
2000-12-15 9:14 ` Chris Mason
2000-12-17 0:54 ` Russell Cattelan
2000-12-17 12:20 ` Chris Mason
2000-12-15 10:51 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-12-15 19:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-12-17 1:08 ` Russell Cattelan
2000-12-18 11:44 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-12-17 2:38 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2000-12-18 11:46 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-12-19 14:05 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2000-12-19 16:43 ` Daniel Phillips
2000-12-19 17:18 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2000-12-19 17:40 ` Christoph Hellwig
2000-12-17 0:51 ` Russell Cattelan
2000-12-17 0:21 ` Russell Cattelan
[not found] <3A398D58.92BBC9A4@thebarn.com>
2000-12-15 3:28 ` Linus Torvalds
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2000-12-15 2:02 Russell Cattelan
2000-12-15 2:48 ` Linus Torvalds
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