linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Make BH_Unwritten a first class bufferhead flag

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Message-ID: <20070109105007.GA22531@infradead.org>
Date:	Tue, 9 Jan 2007 10:50:07 +0000
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	David Chinner <dgc@....com>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make BH_Unwritten a first class bufferhead flag

On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 10:57:45AM +1100, David Chinner wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 10:54:02PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > this doesn't look like a full first class flag to me yet.  Don't
> > we need to check for buffer_unwritten in the places we're checking
> > for buffer_delay so we can stop setting buffer_delay for unwritten
> > buffers?
> 
> That would be __block_prepare_write() and block_truncate_page()?
> I can't see anywhere else in the code where buffer_delay is used
> outside XFS....

Yes, I think it's just those two.
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