On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Chris Mason wrote:
>
> Here's the latest version of the patch, against 2.4.0. The
> biggest open issues are what to do with bdflush, since
> page_launder could do everything bdflush does.
I think we want to remove flush_dirty_buffers() from bdflush.
While we are trying to be smart and do write clustering at the ->writepage
operation, flush_dirty_buffers() is "dumb" and will interfere with the
write clustering.
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