On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 06:00:34PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > This creates a per-backing-device counter that tracks the number of users > which > require pages to be held immutable during writeout. Eventually it will be > used > to waive wait_for_page_writeback() if nobody requires stable pages.
Why are we going down this stupid route again now? Just let the block device say it needs stable writes and let the VM deal with it. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
