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Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote: > > I'm thinking that the right thing to do here is to change submit_bh() > callers and ll_rw_block() to run set_page_writeback(bh->b_page) when they > start the buffer writeout and to do the run-around-the-buffer_heads thing > at I/O completion. A page may have a mix of writeback and dirty+non-writeback buffers. It appears that the page-level writeback code will handle this correctly. But it requires that the page lock be held when we run set_page_writeback(), so that tears that. hmm. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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