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From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
To: Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>
Cc: trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no, Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>,
	Urban Widmark <urban@teststation.com>,
	Chuck Lever <cel@citi.umich.edu>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: invalidate_inode_pages in 2.5.32/3
Date: 24 Sep 2002 00:43:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <shshegg1g5h.fsf@charged.uio.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E17ta9C-0003bo-00@starship>

>>>>> " " == Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de> writes:

    >> Note that in doing so, we do not want to invalidate any reads
    >> or writes that may have been already scheduled. The existing
    >> mapping still would need to hang around long enough to permit
    >> them to complete.

     > With the mechanism I described above, that would just work.
     > The fault path would do lock_page, thus waiting for the IO to
     > complete.

NFS writes do not hold the page lock until completion. How would you
expect to be able to coalesce writes to the same page if they did?

Cheers,
  Trond

  reply	other threads:[~2002-09-23 22:38 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
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 [this message]
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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