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From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Steven Whitehouse <steve@chygwyn.com>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>,
	Linux Memory Management <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@google.com>
Subject: Re: Status of buffered write path (deadlock fixes)
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 03:39:54 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <457D89DA.5010705@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1165853552.3752.1015.camel@quoit.chygwyn.com>

Steven Whitehouse wrote:

>>Hmm, doesn't look like we can do this either because at least GFS2
>>uses BH_New for its own special things.
>>
> 
> What makes you say that? As far as I know we are not doing anything we
> shouldn't with this flag, and if we are, then I'm quite happy to
> consider fixing it up so that we don't,

Bad wording. Many other filesystems seem to only make use of buffer_new
between prepare and commit_write.

gfs2 seems to at least test it in a lot of places, so it is hard to know
whether we can change the current semantics or not. I didn't mean that
gfs2 is doing anything wrong.

So can we clear it in commit_write?

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-11 16:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-05  6:52 Nick Piggin
2006-12-07 19:55 ` Mark Fasheh
2006-12-08  3:28   ` Nick Piggin
2006-12-08 23:48     ` Mark Fasheh
2006-12-11  9:11       ` Nick Piggin
2006-12-11 14:20         ` Nick Piggin
2006-12-11 15:52         ` Nick Piggin
2006-12-11 16:12           ` Steven Whitehouse
2006-12-11 16:39             ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2006-12-11 17:18               ` Steven Whitehouse
2006-12-12 22:31           ` Mark Fasheh
2006-12-13  0:53             ` Nick Piggin
2006-12-13  1:47               ` Trond Myklebust
2006-12-13  1:56                 ` Nick Piggin
2006-12-13  2:31                   ` Trond Myklebust
2006-12-13  4:03                     ` Nick Piggin
2006-12-13 12:21                       ` Trond Myklebust
2006-12-13 13:49                     ` Peter Staubach
2006-12-13 13:55                       ` Trond Myklebust
2006-12-11 18:17 ` OGAWA Hirofumi

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