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From: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
To: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hch@infradead.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] page lock ordering and OCFS2
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 10:25:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4355301F.9020003@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0510180916420.7514@hermes-1.csi.cam.ac.uk>

Anton Altaparmakov wrote:

> What I would ask is why does the above dlm thread need to hold the 
> data_lock duing truncate_inode_pages?

I hope the mail I just sent made that a little more clear.

> and repeat truncate_inode_pages, etc.  Eventually it will succeed.  And no 
> need for nasty VFS patch you are proposing...

Yeah, this also came to me this morning in the shower :)  There are some
hard cases because these are actually read-write locks, but it might be
doable.  We're discussing it.

> no pages left, unless there is an overeager read process at work on that 
> mapping at the same time.

I fear that it'll be pretty easy to get bad capture effects, but maybe
that's ok.  We'll see.

- z

  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-18 17:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-17 22:20 [RFC] page lock ordering and OCFS2 Zach Brown
2005-10-17 23:17 ` Andrew Morton
2005-10-18  0:40   ` Zach Brown
2005-10-18  1:24     ` Andrew Morton
2005-10-18  8:23       ` Anton Altaparmakov
2005-10-18 17:25         ` Zach Brown [this message]
2005-10-18 17:14       ` Zach Brown
2005-10-21 17:43     ` Zach Brown
2005-10-21 17:57       ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-10-21 20:36         ` Zach Brown
2005-10-21 20:59           ` Andrew Morton
2005-10-21 21:57             ` Zach Brown
2005-10-25  0:03         ` Zach Brown
2005-10-21 17:58       ` Andrew Morton
2005-10-21 20:32         ` Zach Brown
2005-10-17 23:37 ` Badari Pulavarty

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