On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Steve French <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Isn't there a lock across lseek? > >>> but how could we have PageDirty? We just did filemap_write_and_wait >>> (unless some private mmap case where it may be ok?). >>> >> >> Nothing prevents the page from being redirtied after writeback. If it is redirtied, we immediately do a filemap_fdatawrite anyway (in the write/aio_write path) so there isn't a delay in writing data to the server. -- Thanks, Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html