Re: [PATCH] 2.6.11-mm1 ext3 writepages support for writeback mode

[Andrew Morton]

Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> Here is the 2.6.11-mm1 patch for adding writepages support
> for ext3 writeback mode. Could you include it in -mm tree ?

spose so.  Does it work?

Do you have any benchmarking results handy?

> +static int
> +ext3_writeback_writepages(struct address_space *mapping, 
> +				struct writeback_control *wbc)
> +{
> +	struct inode *inode = mapping->host;
> +	handle_t *handle = NULL;
> +	int err, ret = 0;
> +
> +	if (!mapping_tagged(mapping, PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY))
> +		return ret;

Can we please add a comment explaining why this is here?  I've already
forgotten why we put it there.
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