>>>>> Badari Pulavarty (BP) writes: >> 2) Andrew proposed the excelent solution
BP> Well, I wasn't sure how heavy thats going to be. He was recommending BP> that we flush all dirty pages from all inodes for each transaction BP> commit. Isn't it ? this is exactly what ext3 does being mounted with data=ordered each page write(2) touches goes onto jbd list and commit thread flushes them all. the only reason we can't use existing sync() infrastructure is that we aren't permitted to touch metadata (in our case, to allocate blocks) during commit. so, here one more flag comes to wbc to signal sync to skip not-allocated-yet pages. I like this a lot! thanks, Alex - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
