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SubjectRe: Status of buffered write path (deadlock fixes)
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On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 11:53 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:

> Not silly -- I guess that is the main sticking point. Luckily *most*
> !uptodate pages will be ones that we have newly allocated so will
> not be in pagecache yet.
>
> If it is in pagecache, we could do one of a number of things: either
> remove it or try to bring it uptodate ourselves. I'm not yet sure if
> either of these actions will cause other problems, though :P
>
> If both of those are really going to cause problems, then we could
> solve this in a more brute force way (assuming that !uptodate, locked
> pages, in pagecache at this point are very rare -- AFAIKS these will
> only be caused by IO errors?). We could allocate another, temporary
> page and copy the contents into there first, then into the target
> page after the prepare_write.

We are NOT going to mandate read-modify-write behaviour on
prepare_write()/commit_write(). That would be a completely unnecessary
slowdown for write-only workloads on NFS.

Trond

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