Re: [patch 10/21] buffer heads: Support slab defrag

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Thu May 15 2008 - 13:42:29 EST


On Mon, 12 May 2008, David Chinner wrote:

> If you are going to clean bufferheads (or pages), please clean entire
> mappings via ->writepages as it leads to far superior I/O patterns
> and a far higher aggregate rate of page cleaning.....

That brings up another issue: Lets say I use writepages on a large file
(couple of gig). How much do you want to write back?

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