From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6.36-rc1] unmount livelock due to racing with bdi-flusher threads
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:59:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101001025916.GA12345@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100930210250.GE3573@quack.suse.cz>
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:02:51PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> I think the best resolution of this problem would be to change the work
> that is submitted via bdi_start_writeback() (i.e., the work without
> superblock = work which needs to do locking) to "target based scheme" like
> Christoph wanted already some time ago. I actually have a patch to do this
> for background writeback so I will just modify it to apply to a wider range
> of writeback as well. Or Christoph, do you already have some patches in
> this direction?
I've not started any work on it yet.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-01 2:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-21 8:41 [2.6.36-rc1] unmount livelock due to racing with bdi-flusher threads Dave Chinner
2010-09-13 2:41 ` Dave Chinner
2010-09-30 21:02 ` Jan Kara
2010-10-01 2:59 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
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