Hi,
On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 11:44:12AM +0200, Trond Myklebust wrote:
>
> > The route we'll probably go for this is through
> > address_space_operations callbacks from shrink_mmap. That
> > allows proper fairness --- all fses can share the same lru that
> > way.
>
> Could such a proposal for a per-page flushing interface perhaps also
> be used for the implementation of more generic versions of 'sync()' &
> friends?
Right now, the write_super() callback to the fs is about the best
place to trap syncs. I'm not sure that you want to have per-page
callbacks for sync --- you really want the fs to be able to batch
things up itself.
Cheers,
Stephen
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