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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com,
	Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] xfs: kick inode writeback when low on memory
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 04:09:16 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110415080915.GA10619@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110414050846.GJ21395@dastard>

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 03:08:46PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> Unfortunately, we simply can't take the s_umount lock in reclaim
> context. So further hackery is going to be required here - I think
> that writeback_inodes_sb_nr_if_idle() need to use trylocks. if the
> s_umount lock is taken in write mode, then it's pretty certain that
> the sb is busy....

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.file-systems/48373/focus=48628

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-15  8:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-07  6:19 [PATCH 0/2] xfs: write back inodes during reclaim Dave Chinner
2011-04-07  6:19 ` [PATCH 1/2] bdi: mark the bdi flusher busy when being forked Dave Chinner
2011-04-11 18:34   ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-04-13 19:29   ` Alex Elder
2011-04-07  6:19 ` [PATCH 2/2] xfs: kick inode writeback when low on memory Dave Chinner
2011-04-11 18:36   ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-04-11 21:14     ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-13 20:33   ` Alex Elder
2011-04-14  5:08     ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-15  8:09       ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2011-04-15  7:23 ` [PATCH 0/2] xfs: write back inodes during reclaim Yann Dupont
2011-04-15  7:54   ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-15  9:13     ` Yann Dupont

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