On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 07:17:47PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> b) Whether we do or don't send the flush in
> jbd2_journal_commit_transaction() depends on whether t_flushed_data_blocks
> is set. We can't know in advance whether it gets set or not because it
> depends on whether some inode is in transaction's t_inode_list and inodes
> can get removed from there when flusher thread has written all the pages
> and inode has been reclaimed. OTOH this looks like a bug in the commit code
> anyway - I guess t_flushed_data_blocks (or better named equivalent) should
> be set in jbd2_journal_file_inode(). Then such variable will also become
> a reliable indicator whether the data flush is going to be sent or not.
Um, I guess I don't see where an inode gets removed from t_inode_list
after the writeback daemon is done with an inode?
- Ted
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