Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Sep 2010 14:52:45 +0200 | From | Jan Kara <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/3] BDI handling fixes |
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On Thu 16-09-10 19:47:42, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 12:44:08AM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > series of these three patches fixes the warning in __mark_inode_dirty() > > which happens when I do e.g. touch /dev/zero. The first two patches should > > be obvious enough and probably worth merging independently of the third > > patch. The third patch is upto a discussion whether we want to solve the > > problem that way or differently. Christoph, I know we spoke at LSF that > > inode_to_bdi() could be a per-sb method but the current version of the > > patch seems clean enough to me that we could maybe go even without the > > special callback? > > Feel free to go with the simpler one. But what I think really needs to > be changes is the no writeback flag - it's exactly the wrong way around. > > Instead just add a flag to allow writeback for the block device and > fs-specific bdi structures. Agreed. I just think that I'll first make the flags right and then just mechanically flip NO_WRITEBACK and WRITEBACK...
Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> SUSE Labs, CR
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