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From: "Jaya Kumar" <jayakumar.lkml@gmail.com>
To: "Paul Mundt" <lethal@linux-sh.org>,
	"Jaya Kumar" <jayakumar.lkml@gmail.com>,
	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 19:02:34 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45a44e480703011602j698f67dev469b49d6b527f502@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070301140131.GA6603@linux-sh.org>

On 3/1/07, Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> wrote:
> 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.

I think Andrew merged it into -mm.

>
> Jaya, can you roll the fsync() patch in to your defio patch? There's not
> much point in keeping them separate.
>

I forgot to add that. Sorry about that. Should I resubmit with it or
would you prefer to post it?

Thanks,
jaya

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-03-02  0:03 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 ` [PATCH/RFC 2.6.20 1/2] fbdev, mm: Deferred IO support Paul Mundt
2007-03-01 23:44   ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Antonino Daplas
2007-03-02  0:02   ` Jaya Kumar [this message]
2007-03-02  2:00     ` Paul Mundt

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