On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 11:00:01AM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > On Thu 05-03-09 07:45:54, Nick Piggin wrote: > > after ~1hour of running. Previously, the new warnings would start immediately > > and hang would happen in under 5 minutes. > A quick grep seems to indicate that you've still missed a few cases, > haven't you? I still see the same problem in > drop_caches.c:drop_pagecache_sb() scanning, inode.c:invalidate_inodes() > scanning, and dquot.c:add_dquot_ref() scanning. > Otherwise the patch looks fine. I thought they should be OK; drop_pagecache_sb doesn't play with flags, invalidate_inodes won't if refcount is elevated, and I think add_dquot_ref won't if writecount is not elevated... But maybe that's abit fragile and it would be better policy to always skip I_NEW in these traverals? -- 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