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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Urban Widmark <urban@teststation.com>
Cc: Chuck Lever <cel@citi.umich.edu>,
	Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>,
	trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: invalidate_inode_pages in 2.5.32/3
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 15:21:23 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D811363.70ABB50C@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.44.0209111044120.6219-100000@cola.enlightnet.local

Urban Widmark wrote:
> 
> ...
> If I understood Andrew right with the inode flag that won't purge anything
> until the next userspace access. I don't think that is what smbfs wants
> since the response to the oplock break should happen fairly soon ...

Well the lazy invalidation would be OK - defer that to the next
userspace access, or just let the pages die a natural VM death,
maybe poke `ksmbinvalidated'.

But if you want to perform writeback within the local IO daemon
then hm.  That's a problem which NFS seems to not have?  I guess
you'd have to leave i_sem held and poke `ksmbwritebackd'.  Or teach
pdflush about queued work items (a tq_struct would do it).

But it's the same story: the requirements of

a) non blocking local IO daemon and

b) assured pagecache takedown

are conflicting.  You need at least one more thread, and locking
against userspace activity.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-09-12 22:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 77+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-05 14:25 invalidate_inode_pages in 2.5.32/3 Chuck Lever
2002-09-05 18:27 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-05 18:53   ` Chuck Lever
2002-09-05 19:17     ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-05 20:00       ` Trond Myklebust
2002-09-05 20:15         ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-05 20:27           ` Trond Myklebust
2002-09-05 20:37             ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-05 20:51               ` Trond Myklebust
2002-09-05 21:12                 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-05 21:31                   ` Trond Myklebust
2002-09-05 22:19                     ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-06  0:48                       ` Trond Myklebust
2002-09-06  1:08                         ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-06  6:49                           ` Trond Myklebust
2002-09-07  8:37                           ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-07 16:09                             ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-07 17:02                               ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-07  8:24                       ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-07 16:06                         ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-09 21:08                           ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-09 21:36                             ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-09 22:12                               ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-07 18:47                         ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-07 23:09                           ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-09 21:44                             ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-09 22:03                               ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-09 22:19                                 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-09 22:32                                   ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-10 16:57                                     ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-09 23:51                                   ` Chuck Lever
2002-09-10  1:07                                     ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-10 15:09                                       ` Chuck Lever
2002-09-10 16:13                                         ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-10 19:04                                           ` Chuck Lever
2002-09-10 20:52                                             ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-11  0:07                                               ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-11  0:27                                                 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-11  0:38                                                   ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-11  0:53                                                     ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-11  1:49                                                       ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-11  2:14                                                         ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-11 16:18                                                 ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-11 17:14                                                   ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-12 19:06                                             ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-12 22:05                                         ` Urban Widmark
2002-09-12 22:21                                           ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-09-12 22:30                                             ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-12 22:43                                               ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-12 22:51                                               ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-12 23:05                                                 ` Randy.Dunlap
2002-09-12 23:23                                                 ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-12 23:53                                                   ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-23 16:38                                                 ` Trond Myklebust
2002-09-23 17:16                                                   ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-23 18:57                                                   ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-23 20:41                                                     ` Trond Myklebust
2002-09-23 20:49                                                       ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-23 22:43                                                         ` Trond Myklebust
2002-09-24  5:09                                                           ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-24 16:40                                                             ` Trond Myklebust
2002-09-23 19:13                                                   ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-13  4:19                                               ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-13  4:52                                               ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-14  9:58                                             ` Urban Widmark
2002-09-12 13:04                                     ` Trond Myklebust
2002-09-12 18:21                                       ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-12 21:15                                         ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-12 21:38                                           ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-12 21:52                                             ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-05 22:01                   ` Chuck Lever
2002-09-05 22:23                     ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-05 21:41           ` Chuck Lever
2002-09-06  9:35     ` Helge Hafting
2002-09-06 16:16       ` Chuck Lever
2002-09-07  8:01   ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-07 10:01     ` Daniel Phillips

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