linux-kernel - Re: [patch 10/21] buffer heads: Support slab defrag

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Date:	Wed, 21 May 2008 07:46:17 +1000
From:	David Chinner <dgc@....com>
To:	Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru>
Cc:	David Chinner <dgc@....com>, Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, Mel Gorman <mel@...net.ie>,
	andi@...stfloor.org, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>, mpm@...enic.com
Subject: Re: [patch 10/21] buffer heads: Support slab defrag

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:56:23AM +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:25:03AM +1000, David Chinner (dgc@....com) wrote:
> > +	filemap_fdatawrite_range(mapping, start, end);
> > 
> > Where [start,end] span page->index and are is large enough
> > to get a substantial sized I/O to disk (say at least SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX
> > pages, preferrably larger for 4k page size machines).
> 
> Or just sync_inode().

Oh, god no. Let's not put the inode_lock right at the top of
the VM page cleaning path. We don't need to modify inode state,
the superblock dirty lists, etc - all we need to do is write
dirty pages on a given mapping in a more efficient manner.

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
Principal Engineer
SGI Australian Software Group
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