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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Sujit Karataparambil <sjt.kar@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] xfs: split inode flushing from xfs_sync_inodes_ag
Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 13:22:47 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090515172246.GC14804@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <921ca19c0905142152u2a8012a9jba6f1d5b856df7ad@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 10:22:31AM +0530, Sujit Karataparambil wrote:
> here also should there be an
> xfs_sync_inode_data(ip, flags);
> xfs_iflush(ip, XFS_IFLUSH_SYNC);
> 
> in out_unlock.

No.  We only want to perform the iflush if all the preconditions are met
in the !SYNC_WAIT case.  And we certainly do not want to do a data
writeout from the metadata flush case - for one thing it does require
the iolock, but most importantly the point of this series is to separate
the two actions.

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-15 17:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-14 17:12 [PATCH 0/7] inode sync refactoring Christoph Hellwig
2009-05-14 17:12 ` [PATCH 1/7] xfs: split inode data writeback from xfs_sync_inodes_ag Christoph Hellwig
2009-05-15  4:49   ` Sujit Karataparambil
2009-05-15 17:21     ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-05-18  6:58       ` Dave Chinner
2009-05-26 20:14   ` Eric Sandeen
2009-05-14 17:12 ` [PATCH 2/7] xfs: split inode flushing " Christoph Hellwig
2009-05-15  4:52   ` Sujit Karataparambil
2009-05-15 17:22     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2009-05-26 20:45   ` Eric Sandeen
2009-05-27 10:58     ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-05-27 20:11       ` Eric Sandeen
2009-05-14 17:12 ` [PATCH 3/7] xfs: factor out inode validation for sync Christoph Hellwig
2009-05-27 20:38   ` Eric Sandeen
2009-05-14 17:12 ` [PATCH 4/7] xfs: remove unused parameter from xfs_reclaim_inodes Christoph Hellwig
2009-05-27 20:44   ` Eric Sandeen
2009-05-14 17:12 ` [PATCH 5/7] xfs: introduce a per-ag inode iterator Christoph Hellwig
2009-06-03 22:01   ` Eric Sandeen
2009-06-04 11:00     ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-06-03 22:18   ` Eric Sandeen
2009-06-04 17:17     ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-06-05 18:18       ` Eric Sandeen
2009-05-14 17:12 ` [PATCH 6/7] xfs: use generic inode iterator in xfs_qm_dqrele_all_inodes Christoph Hellwig
2009-06-03 23:29   ` Josef 'Jeff' Sipek
2009-06-05 19:15   ` Eric Sandeen
2009-06-05 19:17     ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-06-05 20:11       ` Eric Sandeen
2009-05-14 17:12 ` [PATCH 7/7] xfs: split xfs_sync_inodes Christoph Hellwig
2009-06-03 23:26   ` Josef 'Jeff' Sipek
2009-06-04 10:45     ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-06-05 20:32   ` Eric Sandeen
2009-05-28 12:19 ` [PATCH 8/7] xfs: remove SYNC_IOWAIT Christoph Hellwig
2009-06-03 23:30   ` Josef 'Jeff' Sipek
2009-06-04 10:46     ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-06-05 20:37   ` Eric Sandeen
2009-05-28 12:19 ` [PATCH 9/7] xfs: remove SYNC_BDFLUSH Christoph Hellwig
2009-05-29 13:19   ` Sujit Karataparambil
2009-05-29 20:10     ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-05-30  8:27       ` Sujit Karataparambil
2009-06-05 20:45   ` Eric Sandeen

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