> > Fengguang, how about merging also the attached simple patch together with > > my fix? With these two patches, I'm not able to trigger any sync livelock > > while without one of them I hit them quite easily... > > This looks OK. However note that redirty_tail() can modify > dirtied_when unexpectedly. So the more we rely on wb_start, the more > possibility an inode is (wrongly) skipped by sync. I have a bunch of > patches to remove redirty_tail(). However they may not be good > candidates for 2.6.36.. It looks that setting wb_start at the beginning of writeback_inodes_wb() won't be easily affected by redirty_tail(). So Reviewed-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> Thanks, Fengguang -- 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
