Hi, On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 07:49:38PM -0700, Nate Diller wrote: > > read_mapping_page_async() is going away, so convert its only user to > > read_mapping_page(). This change has not been benchmarked, however, in > > order to get real parallelism this wants something completely different, > > like __do_page_cache_readahead(), which is not currently exported. > > Why is read_mapping_page_async going away? This probably needs a lot more > testing, and I'd be much happier if you split it out of the series and > sent it separately at the end. That function wasn't fully async anyway, as it would often sleep in lock_page(). AFAICT only in the special case of a partial written page would this function return a not yet uptodate page. bye, Roman - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
