On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 08:04, Alex Tomas wrote: > >>>>> Badari Pulavarty (BP) writes: > > >> you can introduce one more bit to page->flags > > BP> Agreed. I was hoping to avoid it as much as I can. > > well, you're gonna modify mpage api anyway ...
Okay, I will give a serious look then. Last time, I tried to go near page->flags I got slapped :( This time we have a valid reason, I guess :) > > BP> What I meant by jounalling mode is that - after the pages are submitted > BP> for IO, we need some way of waiting for the IOs to finish inorder to > BP> guarantee the ordering ? Is this not needed for anything other than > BP> ext3 ? > > 1) i'm not sure anyone else supports this Fair enough. If no one needs it - lets keep the interface simple. > 2) Andrew proposed the excelent solution Well, I wasn't sure how heavy thats going to be. He was recommending that we flush all dirty pages from all inodes for each transaction commit. Isn't it ? 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
