On 3/3/2011 1:32 PM, Phillip Susi wrote: > Don't you mean it MAY be initiated if the cache decides there is enough > memory pressure? I don't know of any other call besides fsync and > friends to force the writeback so before that is called, it could ( and > likely is if you have plenty of memory ) still be sitting in the cache > and the disk queue idle.
Nevermind, I figured out what you meant. This new writeback_init/barrier() code that uses sync_file_range. I hadn't seen that before. That should do quite well for an individual archive, so I guess the next thing to do is try to get the calls to tar_deferred_extract() delayed until after multiple archives are unpacked. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d6fe262.3050...@cfl.rr.com
