Re: [PATCH RFC] ext3 data=guarded v5

[Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>]

On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 22:04 +0200, Jan Kara wrote:

> > What we don't want to do is have a call to write() over existing blocks
> > in the file add new things to the data=ordered list.  I don't see how we
> > can avoid that without datanew.
>   Yes, what I suggest would do exactly that:
> In ordered_writepage() in the beginning we do:
>   page_bufs = page_buffers(page);
>   if (!walk_page_buffers(NULL, page_bufs, 0, PAGE_CACHE_SIZE,
>                          NULL, buffer_unmapped)) {
>   	return block_write_full_page(page, NULL, wbc);
>   }
> So we only get to starting a transaction and file some buffers if some buffer
> in the page is unmapped. Write() maps / allocates all buffers in write_begin()
> so they are never added to ordered lists in writepage().

Right, writepage doesn't really need datanew.

>  We rely on write_end
> to do it. So the only case where not all buffers in the page are mapped is
> when we have to allocate in writepage() (mmaped write) or the two cases I
> describe above.

But I still think write_end does need datanew.  That's where 99% of the
ordered buffers are going to come from when we overwrite the contents of
an existing file.

-chris