Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 05 Dec 2000 18:51:16 +1100 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: test12-pre5 |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Ok, this contains one of the fixes for the dirty inode buffer list (the > other fix is pending, simply because I still want to understand why it > would be needed at all). Al?
I've run the same test suite against vanilla test12-pre5 on two machines for five hours. On ext2/IDE/SMP+UP it's solid.
I'll test Al's latest bforget_inode patch overnight, but that's already been through the wringer once.
> Also, it has the final installment of the PageDirty handling, and now > officially direct IO can work by just marking the physical page dirty and > be done with it. NFS along with all filesystems have been converted, the > one hold-out still being smbfs. > > Who works on smbfs these days? I see two ways of fixing smbfs now that > "writepage()" only gets an anonymous page and no "struct file" information > any more (this also fixes the double page unlock that Andrew saw). ^^^^^^ Mike Galbraith.
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