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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] fs: Make write(2) interruptible by a signal
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 15:13:05 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111114201305.GB29277@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111114164647.GP5230@quack.suse.cz>

On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 05:46:47PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> There can be loops where the only blocking point is in
> balance_dirty_pages() and then using the return value makes sense but
> I think such loops would be in minority so maybe the return value doesn't
> make much sense after all.

Yes, maybe the return value isn't that smart.  Sorry for all the noise.


  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-14 20:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-14 16:15 [PATCH 0/2 v2] Make task in balance_dirty_pages() killable Jan Kara
2011-11-14 16:15 ` [PATCH 1/2] mm: " Jan Kara
2011-11-14 16:23   ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-11-15 11:48   ` Wu Fengguang
2011-11-15 13:41     ` Jan Kara
2011-11-15 14:15       ` Wu Fengguang
2011-11-15 14:44         ` Jan Kara
2011-11-14 16:15 ` [PATCH 2/2] fs: Make write(2) interruptible by a signal Jan Kara
2011-11-14 16:26   ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-11-14 16:46     ` Jan Kara
2011-11-14 20:13       ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2011-11-14 22:19   ` Andrew Morton
2011-11-15 11:23     ` Jan Kara
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-11-16 11:12 [PATCH 0/2 v3] Make task in balance_dirty_pages() killable Jan Kara
2011-11-16 11:12 ` [PATCH 2/2] fs: Make write(2) interruptible by a signal Jan Kara
2011-11-16 11:44   ` Wu Fengguang
2011-11-16 12:54     ` Jan Kara
2011-11-16 13:11       ` Wu Fengguang
2011-11-22 22:28     ` Andrew Morton
2011-11-23  9:05       ` Wu Fengguang
2011-11-23  9:50         ` Andrew Morton
2011-11-23 13:08         ` Jan Kara
2011-11-23 13:27           ` Wu Fengguang
2011-11-23 15:06             ` Theodore Tso
2011-11-28  3:08               ` Wu Fengguang
2011-11-29 14:16                 ` Jan Kara
2011-11-14 11:10 [PATCH 0/2] Make task doing heavy writing killable Jan Kara
2011-11-14 11:10 ` [PATCH 2/2] fs: Make write(2) interruptible by a signal Jan Kara
2011-11-14 12:12   ` Matthew Wilcox
2011-11-14 12:15   ` Wu Fengguang
2011-11-14 12:34     ` Jan Kara
2011-11-14 14:16       ` Matthew Wilcox
2011-11-14 15:30         ` Jan Kara
2011-11-14 18:44           ` Jeremy Allison

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