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From: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
To: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	xfs-dev@sgi.com, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Review: fix mapping invalidation callouts
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 11:10:28 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070110001028.GO33919298@melbourne.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45A38332.40506@sgi.com>

On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 11:57:38AM +0000, Lachlan McIlroy wrote:
> 
> This patch fixes fs_tosspages() and fs_flushinval_pages() but will a
> call to fs_flush_pages() with flags including B_INVAL work correctly?

By definition fs_flush_pages() only flushes pages. If you need
to flush and invalidate pages, you use fs_flushinval_pages().

Passing B_INVAL to fs_flush_pages() is broken code.

> I can't see any code that passes B_INVAL into fs_flush_pages()

good ;)

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
Principal Engineer
SGI Australian Software Group

  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-10  0:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-08  4:03 Review: fix mapping invalidation callouts David Chinner
2007-01-08  9:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-01-08 23:04   ` David Chinner
2007-01-09 11:57     ` Lachlan McIlroy
2007-01-10  0:10       ` David Chinner [this message]
2007-01-10  6:23 ` David Chinner
2007-01-10  8:39   ` Lachlan McIlroy
2007-01-11  6:49     ` David Chinner
2007-01-11  8:00       ` David Chinner
2007-01-11  8:01       ` David Chatterton

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