On Thu, Aug 29, 2024 at 05:46:26AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Aug 28, 2024 at 09:13:38AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > > Though we might have to revisit this for filesystems that don't take > > i_rwsem exclusively when writing -- is that a problem? I guess if you > > had two threads both writing and punching the pagecache they could get > > into trouble, but that might be a case of "if it hurts don't do that". > > No i_rwsem for buffered writes? You can't really do that without hell > breaking lose. At least not without another exclusive lock. Well, i_rwsem in shared mode. ISTR ext4 does inode_lock_shared and serializes on the folio lock, at least for non extending writes. --D
