Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750919AbWKANuS (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Nov 2006 08:50:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752185AbWKANuS (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Nov 2006 08:50:18 -0500 Received: from palinux.external.hp.com ([192.25.206.14]:63938 "EHLO mail.parisc-linux.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750906AbWKANuQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Nov 2006 08:50:16 -0500 Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 06:50:15 -0700 From: Matthew Wilcox To: Holden Karau Cc: Holden Karau , Josef Sipek , hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "akpm@osdl.org" , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Nick Piggin , J?rn Engel Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] fat: improve sync performance by grouping writes revised Message-ID: <20061101135015.GD11399@parisc-linux.org> References: <454765AC.1050905@xandros.com> <20061031162825.GD26964@parisc-linux.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 702 Lines: 15 On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 10:10:39PM -0500, Holden Karau wrote: > I was thinking about the issue of running out of memory, while its not > particularly likely to happen except on devices with huge disks and > tiney amount of memory, it is a possibility. I can make it > fall-through to the previous way of doing things, does that sound like > a reasonable idea? Yes, or you could make it sync the ones for which you did have enough memory, and then restart. - 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/