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From: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
To: Jaya Kumar <jayakumar.lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 2.6.20 1/2] fbdev, mm: Deferred IO support
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 23:01:31 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070301140131.GA6603@linux-sh.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070225051312.17454.80741.sendpatchset@localhost>
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 06:13:12AM +0100, Jaya Kumar wrote:
> This patch implements deferred IO support in fbdev. Deferred IO is a way to
> delay and repurpose IO. This implementation is done using mm's page_mkwrite
> and page_mkclean hooks in order to detect, delay and then rewrite IO. This
> functionality is used by hecubafb.
>
Any updates on this? If there are no other concerns, it would be nice to
at least get this in to -mm for testing if nothing else.
Jaya, can you roll the fsync() patch in to your defio patch? There's not
much point in keeping them separate.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-01 14:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-25 5:13 [PATCH/RFC 2.6.20 1/2] fbdev, mm: Deferred IO support Jaya Kumar
2007-02-25 5:13 ` [PATCH/RFC 2.6.20 2/2] fbdev: Hecuba fb driver Jaya Kumar
2007-03-01 14:01 ` Paul Mundt [this message]
2007-03-01 23:44 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH/RFC 2.6.20 1/2] fbdev, mm: Deferred IO support Antonino Daplas
2007-03-02 0:02 ` Jaya Kumar
2007-03-02 2:00 ` Paul Mundt
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