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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Curt Wohlgemuth <curtw@google.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] quota: Split dquot_quota_sync() to writeback and cache flushing part
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 05:45:36 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110727094536.GC11334@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1311719886-1130-4-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz>

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 12:38:04AM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> Split off part of dquot_quota_sync() which writes dquots into a quota file
> to a separate function. In the next patch we will use the function from
> filesystems and we do not want to abuse ->quota_sync quotactl callback more
> than necessary.

I don't know the generic quota code enough to verify that this actually is
safe, but the change at least looks good to me from the VFS POW.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-07-27  9:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-26 22:38 [PATCH 0/5 v2] Improve sync(2) handling Jan Kara
2011-07-26 22:38 ` [PATCH 1/5] vfs: Make sync(1) writeout also block device inodes Jan Kara
2011-07-27  9:44   ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-07-28 20:13     ` Jan Kara
2011-07-26 22:38 ` [PATCH 2/5] vfs: Move noop_backing_dev_info check from sync into writeback Jan Kara
2011-07-27  9:44   ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-07-26 22:38 ` [PATCH 3/5] quota: Split dquot_quota_sync() to writeback and cache flushing part Jan Kara
2011-07-27  8:26   ` Steven Whitehouse
2011-07-27  9:45   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2011-07-26 22:38 ` [PATCH 4/5] quota: Move quota syncing to ->sync_fs method Jan Kara
2011-07-27  8:32   ` Steven Whitehouse
2011-07-27  9:46   ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-07-27 13:44   ` Dave Kleikamp
2011-07-26 22:38 ` [PATCH 5/5] vfs: Avoid unnecessary WB_SYNC_NONE writeback during sync(1) Jan Kara
2011-07-27  9:52   ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-07-28 17:42     ` Jan Kara
2011-07-28 20:37       ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-07-28 21:20         ` Curt Wohlgemuth
2011-07-29 11:09           ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-28 15:00 ` [PATCH 0/5 v2] Improve sync(2) handling Christoph Hellwig
2011-10-06 22:20   ` Jan Kara

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