From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>, trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no
Cc: Chuck Lever <cel@citi.umich.edu>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: invalidate_inode_pages in 2.5.32/3
Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2002 10:37:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E17nb5V-0006OJ-00@starship> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D780027.13A5B3B@zip.com.au>
On Friday 06 September 2002 03:08, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Should we be forcibly unmapping the pages from pagetables? That would
> result in them being faulted in again, and re-read.
There's no conceptual difficulty if it's a truncate. For NFS, maybe
the thing to do is hold ->sem long enough to do whatever dark magic
NFS needs?
> That might work. It's a bit of a hassle that ->releasepage() must
> be nonblocking, but generally it just wants to grab locks, decrement
> refcounts and free things.
Err. I really really wonder why the vfs is not supposed to know
about these goings on, to the extent of being able to take care of
them itself.
--
Daniel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-07 9:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 77+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-05 14:25 invalidate_inode_pages in 2.5.32/3 Chuck Lever
2002-09-05 18:27 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-05 18:53 ` Chuck Lever
2002-09-05 19:17 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-05 20:00 ` Trond Myklebust
2002-09-05 20:15 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-05 20:27 ` Trond Myklebust
2002-09-05 20:37 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-05 20:51 ` Trond Myklebust
2002-09-05 21:12 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-05 21:31 ` Trond Myklebust
2002-09-05 22:19 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-06 0:48 ` Trond Myklebust
2002-09-06 1:08 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-06 6:49 ` Trond Myklebust
2002-09-07 8:37 ` Daniel Phillips [this message]
2002-09-07 16:09 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-07 17:02 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-07 8:24 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-07 16:06 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-09 21:08 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-09 21:36 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-09 22:12 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-07 18:47 ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-07 23:09 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-09 21:44 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-09 22:03 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-09 22:19 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-09 22:32 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-10 16:57 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-09 23:51 ` Chuck Lever
2002-09-10 1:07 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-10 15:09 ` Chuck Lever
2002-09-10 16:13 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-10 19:04 ` Chuck Lever
2002-09-10 20:52 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-11 0:07 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-11 0:27 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-11 0:38 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-11 0:53 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-11 1:49 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-11 2:14 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-11 16:18 ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-11 17:14 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-12 19:06 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-12 22:05 ` Urban Widmark
2002-09-12 22:21 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-12 22:30 ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-12 22:43 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-12 22:51 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-12 23:05 ` Randy.Dunlap
2002-09-12 23:23 ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-12 23:53 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-23 16:38 ` Trond Myklebust
2002-09-23 17:16 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-23 18:57 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-23 20:41 ` Trond Myklebust
2002-09-23 20:49 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-23 22:43 ` Trond Myklebust
2002-09-24 5:09 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-24 16:40 ` Trond Myklebust
2002-09-23 19:13 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-13 4:19 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-13 4:52 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-14 9:58 ` Urban Widmark
2002-09-12 13:04 ` Trond Myklebust
2002-09-12 18:21 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-12 21:15 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-12 21:38 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-12 21:52 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-05 22:01 ` Chuck Lever
2002-09-05 22:23 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-05 21:41 ` Chuck Lever
2002-09-06 9:35 ` Helge Hafting
2002-09-06 16:16 ` Chuck Lever
2002-09-07 8:01 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-07 10:01 ` Daniel Phillips
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