On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 09:54, Andrew Morton wrote: > Badari Pulavarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Yep. nobh_prepare_write() doesn't add any bufferheads. But > > we call block_write_full_page() even for "nobh" case, which > > does create bufferheads, attaches to the page and operates > > on them.. > > hmm, yeah, OK, we'll attach bh's in that case. It's a rare case though -
Thanks. I just wanted to make sure I am not confused. > when a dirty page falls off the end of the LRU. There's no particular > reason why we cannot have a real mpage_writepage() which doesn't use bh's > and employ that. > > I coulda sworn we used to have one. Okay, I will cook it up. Thanks, Badari - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
