On Mon 17-10-16 14:13:12, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > XFS historically took the iolock exclusive when invalidating pages > before direct I/O operations to protect against writeback starvations. > > But this writeback starvation issues has been fixed a long time ago > in the core writeback code, and all other file systems manage to do > without the exclusive lock. Convert XFS over to avoid the exclusive > lock in this case, and also move to range invalidations like done > by the other file systems. > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> The patch looks good to me. You can add: Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-xfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
