Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:10:53 -0400 | From | Chris Mason <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] reiserfs: don't drop PG_dirty when releasing sub-page-sized dirty file |
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On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:56:20 +0800 Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 12:07:07PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > [ adding reiserfs devs to the CC ] > > Thank you. > > This fix is kind of crude - even when it fixed Maxim's problem, and > survived my stress testing of a lot of patching and kernel compiling. > I'd be glad to see better solutions.
This should be safe, reiserfs has the buffer heads themselves clean and the page should get cleaned eventually. The cancel_dirty_page call was just an optimization to be VM friendly.
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