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SubjectRe: NFS client latencies
FromTrond Myklebust <>
DateThu, 31 Mar 2005 10:00:17 -0500
to den 31.03.2005 Klokka 16:54 (+0200) skreiv Ingo Molnar:

> i think it's incorrect in its current form, because 'pos' is not
> necessarily safe and might be removed from the commit_list?

Right.

> the whole loop could be a "while (!list_empty(head))" thing, if it wasnt
> for the possibility for an nfs_set_page_writeback_locked() to skip an
> entry. Maybe a local list of 'already processed' requests should be
> built, and once the main list is emptied, moved back into the main list?
> Then the lock-break could be moved to the end of the loop.

Should be pretty much unnecessary. See my previous email.

Cheers,
Trond
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Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>

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