Thread (19 messages) 19 messages, 5 authors, 2021-06-21

Re: remove the implicit .set_page_dirty default

From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Date: 2021-06-14 15:55:35
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On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 05:53:33PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 01:23:22PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
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i have a somewhat similar series in the works ...

https://git.infradead.org/users/willy/pagecache.git/commitdiff/1e7e8c2d82666b55690705d5bbe908e31d437edb
https://git.infradead.org/users/willy/pagecache.git/commitdiff/bf767a4969c0bc6735275ff7457a8082eef4c3fd

... the other patches rather depend on the folio work.
Yes, these looks useful to me as well.

And in fact I suspect the code in __set_page_dirty_no_writeback should
really be the default if no ->set_page_dirty is set up.  It is the
same code as the no-mapping case and really makes sense as the default
case..
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