Linux-kernel mailing list archive 2000-32,: Re: [BUG] Non-chronological ordering of dirty buffers

# Re: [BUG] Non-chronological ordering of dirty buffers

Tigran Aivazian (tigran@veritas.com)
Mon, 7 Aug 2000 17:00:15 +0100 (BST)

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On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, David S. Miller wrote:
> I can't see any real benefit to the different flushtime settings for
> sb vs. non-sb dirty buffers. Just use the same value for both types,
> I doubt it really matters at all.

If so, then a better fix would be to go through all filesystems and all
other users of mark_buffer_dirty(bh, flag) and change them to
mark_buffer_dirty(bh) - i.e. remove the flag argument altogether. If it
stays but has no effect it will only confuse the matters.

Also, the age_super parameter for bdflush must be replaced with 'dummy1'
in fs/buffer.c.

Do you agree with this? I can make this patch and test it quickly.

Regards,
Tigran

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