From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Daniel McNeil <daniel@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-aio@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.3-rc2-mm1] address_space_serialize_writeback patch
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 17:47:55 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040217174755.2d870b40.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1077066147.1956.136.camel@ibm-c.pdx.osdl.net>
Daniel McNeil <daniel@osdl.org> wrote:
>
> Here is the patch that does what you suggested. It adds a rwsema to
> the address_space and do_writepages() uses it serialize writebacks.
Did you verify that we actually _need_ the semaphore? I seem to recall that
it was a "try this, otherwise add the semaphore" thing. Where "this" was "always
remark the page dirty".
Probably we do need the semaphore, but I'd just like to check that you checked ;)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-18 1:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-12 9:57 2.6.3-rc2-mm1 Andrew Morton
2004-02-12 11:13 ` 2.6.3-rc2-mm1 Andrew Morton
2004-02-12 11:57 ` 2.6.3-rc2-mm1 Anton Blanchard
2004-02-12 12:09 ` 2.6.3-rc2-mm1 Andrew Morton
2004-02-12 14:40 ` 2.6.3-rc2-mm1 Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-02-12 14:46 ` 2.6.3-rc2-mm1 Anton Blanchard
2004-02-12 14:47 ` 2.6.3-rc2-mm1 Anton Blanchard
2004-02-12 11:24 ` 2.6.3-rc2-mm1 Nick Piggin
2004-02-12 14:46 ` 2.6.3-rc2-mm1 Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-02-12 15:40 ` 2.6.3-rc2-mm1 Mark Haverkamp
2004-02-12 21:38 ` 2.6.3-rc2-mm1 Andrew Morton
2004-02-12 22:33 ` 2.6.3-rc2-mm1 Nick Piggin
2004-02-12 17:06 ` 2.6.3-rc2-mm1 (compile stats) John Cherry
2004-02-12 18:43 ` 2.6.3-rc2-mm1 Alistair John Strachan
2004-02-12 20:33 ` 2.6.3-rc2-mm1 (dm) Miquel van Smoorenburg
2004-02-12 21:28 ` Nathan Scott
2004-02-12 22:08 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2004-02-12 22:34 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-13 16:29 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2004-02-13 0:04 ` 2.6.3-rc2-mm1 Torrey Hoffman
2004-02-14 10:36 ` 2.6.3-rc2-mm1 Terje Kvernes
2004-02-13 21:04 ` [PATCH 2.6.3-rc2-mm1] Daniel McNeil
2004-02-13 21:30 ` [PATCH 2.6.3-rc2-mm1] __block_write_full patch Daniel McNeil
2004-02-13 21:49 ` [PATCH 2.6.3-rc2-mm1] filemap_fdatawait patch Daniel McNeil
2004-02-13 22:38 ` [PATCH 2.6.3-rc2-mm1] __block_write_full patch Andrew Morton
2004-02-13 23:30 ` Daniel McNeil
2004-02-13 23:48 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-14 0:02 ` Daniel McNeil
2004-02-18 1:02 ` [PATCH 2.6.3-rc2-mm1] address_space_serialize_writeback patch Daniel McNeil
2004-02-18 1:43 ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-18 1:47 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-02-18 19:36 ` Daniel McNeil
2004-02-14 5:27 ` 2.6.3-rc2-mm1 Glenn Johnson
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