Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755008AbXACIJ1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Jan 2007 03:09:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755010AbXACIJ1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Jan 2007 03:09:27 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.25]:51750 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755008AbXACIJ0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Jan 2007 03:09:26 -0500 Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 00:09:09 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Jens Axboe Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nick Piggin , Nick Piggin Subject: Re: [PATCH] 4/4 block: explicit plugging Message-Id: <20070103000909.dc70594f.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <1167810508576-git-send-email-jens.axboe@oracle.com> References: <11678105083001-git-send-email-jens.axboe@oracle.com> <1167810508576-git-send-email-jens.axboe@oracle.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 616 Lines: 14 On Wed, 3 Jan 2007 08:48:28 +0100 Jens Axboe wrote: > This is a patch to perform block device plugging explicitly in the submitting > process context rather than implicitly by the block device. I don't think anyone will regret the passing of address_space_operations.sync_page(). Do you have any benchmarks which got faster with these changes? - 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/