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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@mellanox.co.il>,
	Gleb Natapov <gleb@minantech.com>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
	Petr Vandrovec <vandrove@vc.cvut.cz>,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
	Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: set_page_dirty vs set_page_dirty_lock
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 20:54:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051208195433.GY26185@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0512081908530.11737@goblin.wat.veritas.com>

On Thu, Dec 08 2005, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> It can be very inconvenient (I don't know what to do for drivers/scsi/sg.c
> than set_page_dirty and hope for the best, since it cannot wait for a lock
> where it needs to).  But I'm afraid you do have the very case where
> set_page_dirty_lock is appropriate.

See bio_set_pages_dirty() in fs/bio.c and the framework for handling
those (notably bio_dirty_fn()).

> Many would be pleased if we could manage without set_page_dirty_lock.

Indeed, would make life easier there as well..

-- 
Jens Axboe


  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-12-08 19:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-08 19:09 set_page_dirty vs set_page_dirty_lock Michael S. Tsirkin
2005-12-08 19:19 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-12-08 19:29   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2005-12-08 19:54   ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2005-12-08 21:56   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2005-12-12  3:28     ` Nick Piggin
2005-12-12  6:35       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2005-12-12  7:10         ` Nick Piggin
2005-12-12  8:14           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2005-12-12  8:32             ` Nick Piggin
2005-12-12  8:55               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2005-12-12  9:23                 ` Nick Piggin
2005-12-12  9:59                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2005-12-13 21:07                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin

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