linux-kernel - Re: [patch 4/8] mm: allow not updating BDI stats in end_page

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Message-Id: <20080318011811.252c7c59.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Tue, 18 Mar 2008 01:18:11 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
Cc:	a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [patch 4/8] mm: allow not updating BDI stats in
 end_page_writeback()

On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:11:49 +0100 Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu> wrote:

> > 
> > Reason: bdi_cap_writeback_dirty() is kinda weirdly intrepreted to mean
> > various different things in different places and we really should separate
> > its multiple interpretations into separate flags.
> > 
> > Note that this becomes a standalone VFS cleanup patch, and the fuse code
> > can then just use it later on.  
> 
> Hmm, I can see two slightly different meanings of bdi_cap_writeback_dirty():
> 
>  1) need to call ->writepage (sync_page_range(), ...)
>  2) need to update BDI stats  (test_clear_page_writeback(), ...)
> 
> If these two were different flags, then fuse could set the
> NEED_WRITEPAGE flag, but clear the NEED_UPDATE_BDI_STATS flag, and do
> it manually.
> 
> Does that sound workable?

Yup, thanks.
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