This series contains two patches from Dave (with a rebase and minor updates from me) which he posted as RFC earlier to reduce the buffer_head dependency in the writeback path, and one patch from me to make use of bios embedded into the ioend and bio chaining to further simplify and optimize the writeback path. They pass xfstests on 4k and 1k file systems. Changes since V1: - various minor refactoring based on the comments from Brian _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs