Re: [patch 4/8] mm: allow not updating BDI stats inend_page_writeback()

From: Miklos Szeredi
Date: Tue Mar 18 2008 - 07:59:27 EST


> On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 20:19 +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > plain text document attachment (end_page_writeback_nobdi.patch)
> > From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > Fuse's writepage will need to clear page writeback separately from
> > updating the per BDI counters.
>
> This is because of the juggling with temporary pages, right?
>
> Would be nice to have some comments in the code explaining this.

Yup, well it will go through a bigger cleanup, as discussed with
Andrew, if that's OK with you?

Miklos
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