On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:30:36AM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: > Sigh, we HAVE a patch that was only adding delalloc to ext4, but it > was rejected because "that functionality should go into the VFS". > Since the performance improvement of delalloc is quite large, we'd > like to get this into the kernel one way or another. Can we make a > decision if the ext4-specific delalloc is acceptable?
I'm a big proponent of having proper common delalloc code, but the one proposed here is not generic for the existing filesystem using delalloc. It's still on my todo list to revamp the xfs code to get rid of some of the existing mess and make it useable genericly. If the ext4 users are fine with the end result we could move to generic code. Note that moving to VFS is bullshit either way, writeback code is nowhere near the VFS nor should it. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
