On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 01:01:01AM -0700, Andrew Morton (akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > When ->writepage() is used, it has to wait until page is written (remote > > side sent acknowledge), so if multiple pages are being written > > simultaneously we either have to allocate shared structure or use > > per-page wait. > > That sounds exactly like wait_on_page_writeback()? Except that we can interrupt waiting and have a timeout, which is allowed there (page will be unlocked sometime in the future, but we return error now). > > Will lock_page_killable()/__lock_page_killable() be exported to modules? > > Maybe, if there's a need. I see no particular problem with that. Every good boys, who write own ->writepages() and locks pages there, want that. -- Evgeniy Polyakov -- 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
