Messages in this thread | | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: invalidate_inode_pages in 2.5.32/3 | Date | Mon, 23 Sep 2002 19:16:59 +0200 |
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On Monday 23 September 2002 18:38, Trond Myklebust wrote: > >>>>> " " == Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com> writes: > > > Look, idunnoigiveup. Like scsi and USB, NFS is a black hole > > where akpms fear to tread. I think I'll sulk until someone > > explains why this work has to be performed in the context of a > > process which cannot do it. > > I'd be happy to move that work out of the RPC callbacks if you could > point out which other processes actually can do it. > > The main problem is that the VFS/MM has no way of relabelling pages as > being invalid or no longer up to date: I once proposed simply clearing > PG_uptodate on those pages which cannot be cleared by > invalidate_inode_pages(), but this was not to Linus' taste.
Could you please provide a subject line for that original discussion?
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