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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/2] radix-tree: fix writeback livelock avoidance code
On Fri 20-08-10 15:22:05, Dave Chinner wrote:
> The following two patches fix bugs in the new radix tree functionality used to
> implement the writeback livelock avoidance code. Both bugs manifest themselves
> as stray PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE tags in the mapping->page_tree radix tree
> resulting in livelocks during tag lookups. More subtly, they also appear to
> result in writeback tree walks occasionally terminating early and so not
> actually writing all the pages they are supposed to.
Really, how that early termination could happen? I'm just wondering
because I don't see that.. The code just mindlessly copies tags regardless
of how target flags are set so that's why I'd think that any stale copied
flags just don't matter...

Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
SUSE Labs, CR


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