linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] 4/4 block: explicit plugging

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Message-Id: <20070103000909.dc70594f.akpm@osdl.org>
Date:	Wed, 3 Jan 2007 00:09:09 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
To:	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 4/4 block: explicit plugging

On Wed,  3 Jan 2007 08:48:28 +0100
Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com> 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?
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