Re: [PATCH] remove page_launder() from bdflush

David Woodhouse (dwmw2@infradead.org)
Tue, 15 May 2001 11:05:50 +0100

marcelo@conectiva.com.br said:
> There is no reason why bdflush should call page_launder().
> Its pretty obvious that bdflush's job is to only write out _buffers_.
> Under my tests this patch makes things faster.

Oh good. ISTR last time I looked at implementing CONFIG_BLK_DEV I got as far
as trying to remove bdflush() before getting confused at finding
page_launder() in it, and going on to more important things.

--
dwmw2




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