From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263540AbUEKTri (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 May 2004 15:47:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263551AbUEKTri (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 May 2004 15:47:38 -0400 Received: from radius8.csd.net ([204.151.43.208]:2202 "EHLO bastille.tuells.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263540AbUEKTrh (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 May 2004 15:47:37 -0400 Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 13:48:53 -0600 From: marcus hall To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Block device swamping disk cache Message-ID: <20040511194853.GA16216@bastille.tuells.org> References: <20040511191124.GA16014@bastille.tuells.org> <20040511201936.A19384@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040511201936.A19384@infradead.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 08:19:36PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > I am running an arm version of the 2.5.59 kernel. > > I don't think anyone here still remembers stoneage-aera kernels. > > You're better off trying to reproduce it with 2.6.6 I guess. Well, when we started the project, the 2.5.59 base was the most current. Since then, there hasn't been time to try to update all of the drivers to the 2.6 kernel. I would like to eventually get there, but at this point it's an unfunded mandate. So, my question is just in general terms, what is supposed to occur to flush blocks out to a block device? Is the inode supposed to be marked as dirty and queued on the superblock containing the block device file (sort of what I expected to be seeing), or is there some other method? I can transpose between the 2.6 and 2.5 kernels enough to try to see what isn't happening, unless the strategy has changed in the 2.6 kernel.. Marcus Hall marcus@tuells.org