On Wed, 13 Jul 2011, Jan Kara wrote: > On Wed 13-07-11 03:57:40, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > > > I think we should assume that your -requeue_io +redirty_tail is a good > > fix for the writeback freeze (if you can reassure us, that it does not > > risk postponing some writes indefinitely) > Well, I_FREEING or I_WILL_FREE inodes are written back by iput_final() > and it is reclaim code that is responsible for eventually removing them. So > writeback code can safely ignore them. I_NEW inodes should move out of this > state when they are fully set up and in the writeback round following that, > we will consider them for writeback. So I think the change really makes > sense. That fits. Good, thanks for the reassurance. Hugh -- 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
