Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264432AbTFCArh (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jun 2003 20:47:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264540AbTFCArh (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jun 2003 20:47:37 -0400 Received: from dyn-ctb-210-9-244-45.webone.com.au ([210.9.244.45]:37637 "EHLO chimp.local.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264432AbTFCArg (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jun 2003 20:47:36 -0400 Message-ID: <3EDBF344.7090906@cyberone.com.au> Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 11:00:52 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030327 Debian/1.3-4 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: kernel@kolivas.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [BENCHMARK] 2.5.70-mm2 with contest References: <200306030806.49885.kernel@kolivas.org> <20030602151644.06252b28.akpm@digeo.com> <3EDBEC27.9070705@cyberone.com.au> <20030602175410.5f198657.akpm@digeo.com> In-Reply-To: <20030602175410.5f198657.akpm@digeo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 840 Lines: 30 Andrew Morton wrote: >Nick Piggin wrote: > > >>It will be interesting to see what happens if we set the >> ext3 journal write paths as PF_SYNCWRITE. I'll try some tests >> a bit later today. >> >> >> > >OK. > >Longer-term it would be best to lose the PF_SYNCWRITE thing and to just >mark the BIOs as synchronous prior to submitting them. It's a matter of >transferring the info in writeback_control.sync_mode at the pagecache/BIO >boundary: mpage_bio_submit(), __block_write_full_page->submit_bh(), etc. > > Yeah that is better. Would be no problem for AS. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/