On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 04:28:32PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > On Mon 14-11-11 21:01:53, Wu Fengguang wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 08:41:45PM +0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 08:29:32PM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote: > > > > > Can you make balance_dirty_pages(_ratelimited) return an error instead > > > > > of opencoding the fatal signal che > > > > > > > > Hmm that means a bigger change to the prototype of the _exported_ > > > > balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr() which impacts out of tree FS... > > > > > > So what? out of tree fses have always been entirely supported on their > > > own, and not a matter for keeping progress back. > > > > OK. Jan, would you do the mm/*.c part in v2? I'll do the various FS > > parts. > Sure, I'll update my patch to balance_dirty_pages(). Should I also update > my patch to generic_perform_write() or does that fall under "various FS > parts" cathegory? I'd be much happier if all bits go in together. IMHO this is a change worthwhile for 3.2 still, so we should probably try to get it in ASAP. -- 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
