From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <45185D2C.8040205@RedHat.com> Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 18:50:20 -0400 From: Steve Dickson MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Checking page_count(page) in invalidate_complete_page References: <4518333E.2060101@oracle.com> <20060925141036.73f1e2b3.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20060925141036.73f1e2b3.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: chuck.lever@oracle.com, Trond Myklebust , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Andrew Morton wrote: > I think invalidate_inode_pages2() is sufficiently different from (ie: > stronger than) invalidate_inode_pages() to justify the addition of a new > invalidate_complete_page2(), which skips the page refcount check. Removing the page refcount does fix the problem at least the one we are seeing with NFS not being able to flush its readdir cache.. steved. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org