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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Shantanu Goel <sgoel01@yahoo.com>
Cc: trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no, sgoel01@yahoo.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.6-rc{1,2} bad VM/NFS interaction in case of dirty page writeback
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 18:02:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040427180253.5a043319.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040428004707.89142.qmail@web12824.mail.yahoo.com>

Shantanu Goel <sgoel01@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Andrew/Trond,
> 
> Any consensus as to what the right approach is here?

For now I suggest you do

-	err = WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE;
+	err = 0;

in nfs_writepage().

> One cheap though perhaps hack'ish solution would be to
> introduce yet another special error code like
> WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE which instead of moving the page to
> the head of the active list instead moves it to the
> head of the inactive list.

It would be better to set a flag in the backing_dev so that page reclaim
knows to not enter writepage at all.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-28  1:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-27  1:12 Shantanu Goel
2004-04-27  2:15 ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-27  3:11   ` Trond Myklebust
2004-04-27  3:59     ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-27  5:23       ` Trond Myklebust
2004-04-27  5:58         ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-27 11:44           ` Shantanu Goel
2004-04-27 15:36           ` Trond Myklebust
2004-04-28  0:47             ` Shantanu Goel
2004-04-28  1:02               ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-04-28  1:28                 ` Trond Myklebust
2004-04-28  1:38                   ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-28  5:29             ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-04-28 16:17               ` Trond Myklebust
2004-04-28 16:38                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-04-28 19:07                   ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-29  1:48                     ` Nathan Scott
2004-04-29  8:27                       ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-04-27  6:10       ` Nick Piggin

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