On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 11:00 +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote: > plain text document attachment (nfs-fix-write_inode-retval.patch) > It's probably not sane to return success while redirtying the inode at > the same time in ->write_inode(). > > CC: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > fs/nfs/write.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > --- linux-next.orig/fs/nfs/write.c 2011-04-19 10:18:16.000000000 +0800 > +++ linux-next/fs/nfs/write.c 2011-04-19 10:18:32.000000000 +0800 > @@ -1519,7 +1519,7 @@ static int nfs_commit_unstable_pages(str > { > struct nfs_inode *nfsi = NFS_I(inode); > int flags = FLUSH_SYNC; > - int ret = 0; > + int ret = -EAGAIN; > > if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_NONE) { > /* Don't commit yet if this is a non-blocking flush and there > > Hi Fengguang, I don't understand the purpose of this patch... Currently, the value of 'ret' only affects the case where the commit exits early due to this being a non-blocking flush where we have not yet written back enough pages to make it worth our while to send a commit. In essence, this really only matters for the cases where someone calls 'write_inode_now' (not used by anybody calling into the NFS client) and 'sync_inode', which is only called by nfs_wb_all (with sync_mode = WB_SYNC_ALL). So can you please elaborate on the possible use cases for this change? Cheers Trond -- Trond Myklebust Linux NFS client maintainer NetApp Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx www.netapp.com -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href