Re: [PATCH] reiserfs: Convert to writepages

Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]> Thu, 11 Apr 2024 19:08:50 +0100
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.reiserfs-devel,org.kernel.vger.linux-fsdevel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Mar 05, 2024 at 06:53:08PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 05, 2024 at 06:52:05PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
> > Use buffer_migrate_folio to handle folio migration instead of writing
> > out dirty pages and reading them back in again.  Use writepages to write
> > out folios more efficiently.  We now only do that wait_on_write_block
> > check once per call to writepages instead of once per page.  It would be
> > possible to do one transaction per writeback run, but that's a bit of a
> > big change to do to this old filesystem, so leave it as one transaction
> > per folio (and leave reiserfs supporting only one page per folio).
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <[email protected]>

This patch is not yet in linux-next.  Do I need to do anything to
make that happen?