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From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: The meaning of data=ordered as it relates to delayed allocation
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:15:54 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090119144554.GJ9482@skywalker> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090119124513.GC7598@mit.edu>

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 07:45:13AM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 10:13:45AM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> > > So I wonder if we should either:
> > > 
> > > (a) make data=ordered force block allocation and writeback --- which
> > >     should just be a matter of disabling the
> > >     redirty_page_for_writepage() code path in ext4_da_writepage()
> > 
> > We can't do that because we cannot do block allocation there. So we need
> > to redirty the page that have unmapped buffer_heads.
> 
> What is preventing us from doing block allocation from
> ext4_da_writepage()?
> 

The callback is called with page lock held and we can't start a journal
with page lock held.

-aneesh

  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-19 14:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-19  0:52 The meaning of data=ordered as it relates to delayed allocation Theodore Ts'o
2009-01-19  4:43 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2009-01-19 12:45   ` Theodore Tso
2009-01-19 14:45     ` Aneesh Kumar K.V [this message]
2009-01-26 13:24       ` Jan Kara
2009-01-19 19:10 ` Andreas Dilger

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