Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 May 2007 23:38:04 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [ext3][kernels >= 2.6.20.7 at least] KDE going comatose when FS is under heavy write load (massive starvation) |
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On Fri, 04 May 2007 10:18:12 +0400 Alex Tomas <alex@clusterfs.com> wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote: > > Yes, there can be issues with needing to allocate journal space within the > > context of a commit. But > > no-no, this isn't required. we only need to mark pages/blocks within > transaction, otherwise race is possible when we allocate blocks in transaction, > then transacton starts to commit, then we mark pages/blocks to be flushed > before commit.
I don't understand. Can you please describe the race in more detail? - 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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