Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Mar 2004 15:28:43 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.4-mm2 |
| |
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote: > > I'm thinking that the right thing to do here is to change submit_bh() > callers and ll_rw_block() to run set_page_writeback(bh->b_page) when they > start the buffer writeout and to do the run-around-the-buffer_heads thing > at I/O completion.
A page may have a mix of writeback and dirty+non-writeback buffers. It appears that the page-level writeback code will handle this correctly. But it requires that the page lock be held when we run set_page_writeback(), so that tears that. hmm.
- 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/
| |