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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
	Boaz Harrosh <ooo@electrozaur.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Orangefs (text only resend)
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2015 16:48:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150908144849.GA1398@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150907232206.GL22011@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>

On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 12:22:06AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> You don't want e.g. to have allocation request triggering an attempt to write
> a dirty page on a shared mapping of a file from your fs while you are holding
> a mutex that would block that attempt *and* waiting for a allocation to
> succeed.

Unless something changed very recently there is no writeback in orangefs.
It's all non-cached I/O straight on to the server, with readpage only
there for read-only mmaps (for executable I suspect).

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-09-08 14:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-01 15:42 [GIT PULL] Orangefs (text only resend) Mike Marshall
2015-09-02 23:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-03  1:13   ` Mike Marshall
2015-09-03  1:28     ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-03 20:22       ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-03 22:18         ` Mike Marshall
2015-09-03 22:44         ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-09-06  6:35   ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-09-06  9:08     ` Al Viro
2015-09-06 14:52       ` Mike Marshall
2015-09-06 15:00         ` Mike Marshall
2015-09-06 20:20         ` Al Viro
2015-09-07  6:37           ` Al Viro
2015-09-07 21:10             ` Mike Marshall
2015-09-07 23:22               ` Al Viro
2015-09-08  0:47                 ` Theodore Ts'o
2015-09-08  2:49                   ` Dave Chinner
2015-09-08 14:48                 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2015-09-08 18:21                   ` Mike Marshall
2015-09-09 15:05                     ` Mike Marshall
2015-09-11 21:12                       ` Mike Marshall
2015-09-11 22:24                         ` Al Viro
2015-09-13 11:56                           ` Mike Marshall
2015-09-11 23:20                         ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-13 11:59                           ` Mike Marshall
2015-09-06 14:35     ` Mike Marshall

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