>>>>> "Nick" == Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx> writes: Nick> More complex and maybe more performant would be to avoid holding Nick> page lock but wait_on_page_writeback in page-modification (write, Nick> fault) paths. That's what I was doing last I looked at this. I seem to recall that my head exploded once I added buffer_heads to the mix. And then the extfs folks promised to take a look so I didn't mess more with it. -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering -- 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