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Date:	Tue, 11 Oct 2011 09:07:56 +0900
From:	NamJae Jeon <linkinjeon@...il.com>
To:	"Ted Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@...el.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch]ext4: add block plug for .writepages

2011/10/11 Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu>:
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 11:09:40AM +0800, Shaohua Li wrote:
>> I searched a little bit, looks only ext4 need it. here is the patch.
>>
>>
>> Add block plug for ext4 .writepages. Though ext4 .writepages
>> already handles request merge very well, block plug is still
>> helpful to reduce block lock contention.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@...el.com>
You found good point.
If there are other filesystem that didn't use generic_writepages,
these are needed as this patch.

Reviewed-by: NamJae Jeon <linkinjeon@...il.com>
>
> Thanks, applied.
>
>                                        - Ted
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