Hi Linus,
block_truncate_page() function unecessarily calls mark_buffer_dirty(),
which may wait on bdflush, while holding a locked page.
The following patch against 2.4.0test13pre4 makes block_truncate_page call
balance_dirty() (which may wait for bdflush) after when we unlocked the
page and decrement its counter.
Comments?
--- linux.orig/fs/buffer.c.orig Thu Dec 28 15:01:01 2000
+++ linux/fs/buffer.c Thu Dec 28 15:01:40 2000
@@ -1909,12 +1909,13 @@
flush_dcache_page(page);
kunmap(page);
- mark_buffer_dirty(bh);
+ __mark_buffer_dirty(bh);
err = 0;
unlock:
UnlockPage(page);
page_cache_release(page);
+ balance_dirty(bh->b_dev);
out:
return err;
}
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