On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 15:49 +1100, Dave Chinner wrote: > From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> > > To ensure the log is covered and the filesystem idles correctly, we > need to ensure that dummy transactions hit the disk and do not stay > pinned in memory. If the superblock is pinned in memory, it can't > be flushed so the log covering cannot make progress. The result is > dependent on timing - more oftent han not we continue to issues a > log covering transaction every 36s rather than idling after ~90s. > > Fix this by making the log covering transaction synchronous. To > avoid additional log force from xfssyncd, make the log covering > transaction take the place of the existing log force in the xfssyncd > background sync process. > Looks good. Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@xxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
