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    DateSun, 5 Oct 2008 21:20:31 -0700
    FromArjan van de Ven <>
    SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/3] Fix fsync livelock
    On Sun, 5 Oct 2008 23:30:51 -0400 (EDT
    > The point is that many fsync()s may run in parallel and you have just
    > one inode and just one chain. And if you add two-word list_head to a
    > page, to link it on this list, many developers will hate it for
    > increasing its size.
    
    why to a page?
    a list head in the inode and chain up the bios....
    or not make an actual list but just a "is the previous one done" thing
    it's not all that hard to get something that works on a per inode basis,
    that gives "wait for all io upto this one".
    
    
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