Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH/RFC 2.6.20 1/2] fbdev, mm: Deferred IO support

[Antonino Daplas]

On 3/1/07, Paul Mundt <lethal@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 06:13:12AM +0100, Jaya Kumar wrote:
> > This patch implements deferred IO support in fbdev. Deferred IO is a way to
> > delay and repurpose IO. This implementation is done using mm's page_mkwrite
> > and page_mkclean hooks in order to detect, delay and then rewrite IO. This
> > functionality is used by hecubafb.
> >
> Any updates on this? If there are no other concerns, it would be nice to
> at least get this in to -mm for testing if nothing else.

The driver is already in the -mm tree.

> Jaya, can you roll the fsync() patch in to your defio patch? There's not
> much point in keeping them separate.

The fsync() patch was not included by Jaya, I believe.

Tony
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