Re: [PATCH] async: Don't call async_synchronize_full_special() whileholding sb_lock

[Arjan van de Ven]

Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 09:46:31AM -0600, Dave Kleikamp wrote:
> > sync_filesystems() shouldn't be calling async_synchronize_full_special
> > while holding a spinlock.  The second while loop in that function is the
> > right place for this anyway.
>
> Out of curiousity, what on earth does
> async_synchronize_full_special() do and why does it need to be in
> sync_filesystems()?
now that we have asynchronous operations, this function makes sure that all the functions
that we started async before this point complete, so that what when you sync, you sync all in progress work.
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