Re: [PATCH] kill flush_dirty_buffers

On Mon, Aug 06 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote:

This suggests that buffer flushing needs to be per-device.

Yep, and either stopped as soon as the queue free lists are empty or
done independently per queue. One thought I had was to actually move the
dirty list to the queues (or at least separated) and have the plugs
_pull_ the buffers out instead of the other way around.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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