Re: Wrong DIF guard tag on ext2 write

From: Martin K. Petersen
Date: Tue Jun 01 2010 - 09:24:24 EST


>>>>> "Nick" == Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx> writes:

Nick> More complex and maybe more performant would be to avoid holding
Nick> page lock but wait_on_page_writeback in page-modification (write,
Nick> fault) paths.

That's what I was doing last I looked at this. I seem to recall that my
head exploded once I added buffer_heads to the mix. And then the extfs
folks promised to take a look so I didn't mess more with it.

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Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
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