Re: [PATCH] Remove certain calls for releasing page cache

[Nick Krause]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 4:51 PM, Zach Brown <zab@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 04:47:12PM -0400, Josef Bacik wrote:
>> On 07/30/2014 04:42 PM, Nicholas Krause wrote:
>> >This patch removes the lines for releasing the page cache in certain
>> >files as this may aid in perfomance with writes in the compression
>> >rountines of btrfs. Please note that this patch has not been tested
>> >on my own hardware due to no compression based btrfs volumes of my
>> >own.
>> >
>>
>> http://37.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m44v95k9Y11qjhgo6o1_250.gif
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVfkYZmXHAg
>
> - z


Zach,
Is there a reason for freeing the page cache as I seem to be missing why?
Regards Nick
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