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.
next prev parent 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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