Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: invalidate_inode_pages in 2.5.32/3 | From | Trond Myklebust <> | Date | 24 Sep 2002 00:43:06 +0200 |
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>>>>> " " == Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de> writes:
>> Note that in doing so, we do not want to invalidate any reads >> or writes that may have been already scheduled. The existing >> mapping still would need to hang around long enough to permit >> them to complete.
> With the mechanism I described above, that would just work. > The fault path would do lock_page, thus waiting for the IO to > complete.
NFS writes do not hold the page lock until completion. How would you expect to be able to coalesce writes to the same page if they did?
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