Re: [PATCH 0/1] VFS: introduce s_dirty accessors

From: Artem Bityutskiy
Date: Mon Jul 05 2010 - 09:08:32 EST


On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 13:56 +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> Hi Linus,
>
> would it be possible to add the following patch to your tree. I'm trying
> to lessen amount of useless wake-ups in the kernel, and the 'sync_supers'
> thread if one of those kernel threads which wakes up every 5 seconds to
> (mostly) do nothing.
>
> This is still work in progress, but putting the below patch to your tree
> would make life easier at the next merge window. This patch just adds 3
> accessor functions, but no one will use them so fare, so it must be
> harmless. This was suggested by Ted and supported by Al:
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/6/9/216

Linus,

I wonder, you did not take this because of the vacation or because you
do not like it?

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (ÐÑÑÑÐ ÐÐÑÑÑÐÐÐ)

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