On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 08:25:21AM -0400, Chris Mason wrote: > > write_begin/write_end is a step in that direction (and it helps > > OCFS and GFS quite a bit). I think there is also not much reason > > for writepage sites to require the page to lock the page and clear > > the dirty bit themselves (which has seems ugly to me). > > If we keep the page mapping information with the page all the time (ie > writepage doesn't have to call get_block ever), it may be possible to > avoid sending down a locked page. But, I don't know the delayed > allocation internals well enough to say for sure if that is true. The point of delayed allocations is that the mapping information doesn't even exist until writepage for new allocations :) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
