On Wed, 24 Mar 2021 13:48:08 -0600 Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 4:43 PM <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > The patch titled > > Subject: mm: provide filemap_range_needs_writeback() helper > > has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is > > mm-provide-filemap_range_needs_writeback-helper.patch > > Are you still planning on flushing this out for 5.12?? Oh. No, I wasn't planning on that. I saw nothing which made me think it was that urgent. What is the justification? How much performance benefit are we talking here?