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Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 13:43:07 -0200 (BRST)
From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
To: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] changes to buffer.c (was Test12 ll_rw_block error)
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On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Chris Mason wrote:

> 
> Here's the latest version of the patch, against 2.4.0.  The
> biggest open issues are what to do with bdflush, since
> page_launder could do everything bdflush does.  

I think we want to remove flush_dirty_buffers() from bdflush. 

While we are trying to be smart and do write clustering at the ->writepage
operation, flush_dirty_buffers() is "dumb" and will interfere with the
write clustering. 



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