From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965045AbXCAOEF (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Mar 2007 09:04:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752428AbXCAOEF (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Mar 2007 09:04:05 -0500 Received: from smtp.ocgnet.org ([64.20.243.3]:55840 "EHLO smtp.ocgnet.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752426AbXCAOEE (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Mar 2007 09:04:04 -0500 Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 23:01:31 +0900 From: Paul Mundt To: Jaya Kumar Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 2.6.20 1/2] fbdev, mm: Deferred IO support Message-ID: <20070301140131.GA6603@linux-sh.org> Mail-Followup-To: Paul Mundt , Jaya Kumar , linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton References: <20070225051312.17454.80741.sendpatchset@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070225051312.17454.80741.sendpatchset@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.