>Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au> wrote:
>
>
>>It will be interesting to see what happens if we set the
>> ext3 journal write paths as PF_SYNCWRITE. I'll try some tests
>> a bit later today.
>>
>>
>>
>
>OK.
>
>Longer-term it would be best to lose the PF_SYNCWRITE thing and to just
>mark the BIOs as synchronous prior to submitting them. It's a matter of
>transferring the info in writeback_control.sync_mode at the pagecache/BIO
>boundary: mpage_bio_submit(), __block_write_full_page->submit_bh(), etc.
>
>
Yeah that is better. Would be no problem for AS.
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