Re: [patch]ext4: add block plug for .writepages

From: NamJae Jeon
Date: Mon Oct 10 2011 - 20:08:01 EST


2011/10/11 Ted Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>:
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 11:09:40AM +0800, Shaohua Li wrote:
>> I searched a little bit, looks only ext4 need it. here is the patch.
>>
>>
>> Add block plug for ext4 .writepages. Though ext4 .writepages
>> already handles request merge very well, block plug is still
>> helpful to reduce block lock contention.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@xxxxxxxxx>
You found good point.
If there are other filesystem that didn't use generic_writepages,
these are needed as this patch.

Reviewed-by: NamJae Jeon <linkinjeon@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Thanks, applied.
>
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