Re: pagebuf_prepare_write doesn't kmap the page

[Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Steve Lord wrote:

> 
> OK, I see what is going on here - and I think this could actually
> break regular XFS as well - if you use the loop device on a highmem
> machine. I will fix it in my 2.4.1 merge which should be out in cvs
> in a day or two. 2.4.1 is running with XFS, but I am not happy with
> what the kernel changes have done to performance.

Steve, 

Could you please describe what performance problems are going on?