On Thu, 01 Nov 2007 08:38:57 -0800 Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 13:40 -0400, Chris Mason wrote: > > On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:14:21 -0800 > > Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > I tried data=writeback mode and it didn't help :( > > > > Ouch, so much for the easy way out. > > > > > > > > unable to release the page 262070 > > > bh c0000000211b9408 flags 110029 count 1 private 0 > > > unable to release the page 262098 > > > bh c000000020ec9198 flags 110029 count 1 private 0 > > > memory offlining 3f000 to 40000 failed > > > > > > > The only other special thing reiserfs does with the page cache is > > file tails. I don't suppose all of these pages are index zero in > > files smaller than 4k? > > Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh !! I am so blind :( > > I have been suspecting reiserfs all along, since its executing > fallback_migrate_page(). Actually, these buffer heads are > backing blockdev. I guess these are metadata buffers :( > I am not sure we can do much with these.. Hmpf, my first reply had a paragraph about the block device inode pages, I noticed the phrase file data pages and deleted it ;) But, for the metadata buffers there's not much we can do. They are included in a bunch of different lists and the patch would be non-trivial. -chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
