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

[Jaya K. <jay...@gm...>]

On 3/1/07, Paul Mundt <le...@li...> 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.

I think Andrew merged it into -mm.

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

I forgot to add that. Sorry about that. Should I resubmit with it or
would you prefer to post it?

Thanks,
jaya