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From: "Antonino Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>
To: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
"Paul Mundt" <lethal@linux-sh.org>,
"Jaya Kumar" <jayakumar.lkml@gmail.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH/RFC 2.6.20 1/2] fbdev, mm: Deferred IO support
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 07:44:15 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b00ca3bd0703011544n6a9eccc8gfa9e44964bd68e9d@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.
The driver is already in the -mm tree.
>
> Jaya, can you roll the fsync() patch in to your defio patch? There's not
> much point in keeping them separate.
The fsync() patch was not included by Jaya, I believe.
Tony
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-01 23:44 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 ` Antonino Daplas [this message]
2007-03-02 0:02 ` Jaya Kumar
2007-03-02 2:00 ` Paul Mundt
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