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From: Alex Tomas <bzzz@tmi.comex.ru>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
Cc: Alex Tomas <bzzz@tmi.comex.ru>,
	linux-kernel@alex.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: 2.5.59-mm5
Date: 24 Jan 2003 22:58:13 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m34r7ys4kq.fsf@lexa.home.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030124111249.227a40d6.akpm@digeo.com>

>>>>> Andrew Morton (AM) writes:

 AM> We cannot free disk blocks until I/O against them has completed.
 AM> Otherwise the block could be reused for something else, then the
 AM> old IO will scribble on the new data.

 AM> What we _can_ do is to defer the waiting - only wait on the I/O
 AM> when someone reuses the disk blocks.  So there are actually
 AM> unused blocks with I/O in flight against them.

 AM> We do that for metadata (the wait happens in
 AM> unmap_underlying_metadata()) but for file data blocks there is no
 AM> mechanism in place to look them up

yeah! indeed. my stupid mistake ...




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  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-24 19:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-24  3:50 2.5.59-mm5 Andrew Morton
2003-01-24 11:03 ` 2.5.59-mm5 Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2003-01-24 11:16   ` 2.5.59-mm5 Andrew Morton
2003-01-24 11:23     ` 2.5.59-mm5 Alex Tomas
2003-01-24 11:50       ` 2.5.59-mm5 Andrew Morton
2003-01-24 12:05         ` 2.5.59-mm5 Alex Tomas
2003-01-24 19:12           ` 2.5.59-mm5 Andrew Morton
2003-01-24 19:58             ` Alex Tomas [this message]
2003-01-25 17:32             ` 2.5.59-mm5 Ed Tomlinson
2003-01-25 17:41               ` 2.5.59-mm5 Andrew Morton
2003-01-25 20:34                 ` 2.5.59-mm5 Ed Tomlinson
2003-01-25 22:33                   ` 2.5.59-mm5 Andrew Morton
2003-01-26  1:43                     ` 2.5.59-mm5 Ed Tomlinson
2003-01-26  2:17                       ` 2.5.59-mm5 Andrew Morton
2003-01-26  3:51                         ` 2.5.59-mm5 Ed Tomlinson
2003-01-26  4:04                           ` 2.5.59-mm5 Andrew Morton
2003-01-24 15:56         ` 2.5.59-mm5 Oliver Xymoron
2003-01-24 16:04           ` 2.5.59-mm5 Nick Piggin
2003-01-24 17:09             ` 2.5.59-mm5 Giuliano Pochini
2003-01-24 17:22               ` 2.5.59-mm5 Nick Piggin
2003-01-24 19:34                 ` 2.5.59-mm5 Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-01-24 20:04                   ` 2.5.59-mm5 Jens Axboe
2003-01-24 22:02                     ` 2.5.59-mm5 Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-01-25 12:28                       ` 2.5.59-mm5 Jens Axboe
2003-01-24 12:14     ` 2.5.59-mm5 Nikita Danilov
2003-01-24 16:00       ` 2.5.59-mm5 Nick Piggin
2003-01-24 11:23   ` 2.5.59-mm5 Jens Axboe
2003-01-24 13:59 ` 2.5.59-mm5 got stuck during boot Helge Hafting
2003-01-24 17:44   ` Ed Tomlinson
2003-01-24 17:56     ` Nick Piggin
2003-01-24 19:18       ` Ed Tomlinson
2003-01-25  8:33 ` 2.5.59-mm5 Andres Salomon

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