linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] fat: improve sync performance by grouping writes revised

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Date:	Wed, 1 Nov 2006 06:50:15 -0700
From:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>
To:	Holden Karau <holden@...scanfly.ca>
Cc:	Holden Karau <holdenk@...dros.com>,
	Josef Sipek <jsipek@....cs.sunysb.edu>,
	hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"akpm@...l.org" <akpm@...l.org>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>,
	J?rn Engel <joern@...nheim.fh-wedel.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] fat: improve sync performance by grouping writes revised

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.

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