From: Ethan Solomita <solo@google.com>
To: Ethan Solomita <solo@google.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: NR_UNSTABLE_FS vs. NR_FILE_DIRTY: double counting pages?
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 18:15:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4635433C.7030607@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <463537C2.5050804@google.com>
Ethan Solomita wrote:
> Trond Myklebust wrote:
>>
>> It should not happen. If the page is on the unstable list, then it will
>> be committed before nfs_updatepage is allowed to redirty it. See the
>> recent fixes in 2.6.21-rc7.
>
> Above I present a codepath called straight from sys_write() which
> seems to do what I say. I could be wrong, but can you address the code
> paths I show above which seem to set both?
Sorry about my quick reply, I'd misunderstood what you were saying.
I'll take a look at what you say.
Thanks,
-- Ethan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-30 1:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-28 1:21 Ethan Solomita
2007-04-29 20:22 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-04-30 0:26 ` Ethan Solomita
2007-04-30 1:15 ` Ethan Solomita [this message]
2007-04-30 1:51 ` Trond Myklebust
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