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From: steve@chygwyn.com
Subject: Re: [patch 6/6] mm: fsync livelock avoidance
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 09:15:22 +0000
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Hi,

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 08:42:09AM +0100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> OK, there has not been any further discussion on this approach since I last
> posted it, so I am going to go out on a limb and suggest that we take this
> approach, if any, rather than Mikulas' one.
> 
[snip]
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
> ---
>  drivers/usb/gadget/file_storage.c |    4 -
>  fs/cifs/cifsfs.c                  |    7 +
>  fs/fs-writeback.c                 |   13 ++-
>  fs/gfs2/glops.c                   |    9 +-
>  fs/gfs2/meta_io.c                 |    4 -
>  fs/gfs2/ops_file.c                |   13 ++-

For the GFS2 bits:
Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

That seems a reasonable approach to me,

Steve.