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Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 14:21:20 -0200 (BRST)
From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
To: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] changes to buffer.c (was Test12 ll_rw_block error)
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On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Chris Mason wrote:

> BTW, the last anon space mapping patch I sent also works on test13-pre5.
> The block_truncate_page fix does help my patch, since I have bdflush
> locking pages ( thanks Marcelo )

Good to know. I thought that fix would not change performance noticeable.

Now the ext2 changes will for sure make a difference since right now the
superblock lock is suffering from contention. 

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