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

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Date:	Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:59:11 +0100
From:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
To:	peterz@...radead.org
CC:	miklos@...redi.hu, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	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 Mon, 2008-03-17 at 20:19 +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > plain text document attachment (end_page_writeback_nobdi.patch)
> > From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...e.cz>
> > 
> > Fuse's writepage will need to clear page writeback separately from
> > updating the per BDI counters.
> 
> This is because of the juggling with temporary pages, right?
> 
> Would be nice to have some comments in the code explaining this.

Yup, well it will go through a bigger cleanup, as discussed with
Andrew, if that's OK with you?

Miklos
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