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From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
To: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	col-pepper@piments.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: o_sync in vfat driver
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 08:45:08 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200603020845.10083.mason@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mzg9wst0.fsf@duaron.myhome.or.jp>

On Wednesday 01 March 2006 20:15, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:

> > Just to make sure we're using the same terms, do you mean the pages are
> > marked dirty and on the SB's dirty list, or do you mean the page has been
> > through writepage and is currently on its way to the disk?
>
> The page is already on device's request queue, and the page is already
> marked a PG_writeback. And that page is not processed by device yet.
>
> Then, you call next filemap_fdatawrite(), it just re-dirty the page
> and queues to sb->s_dirty, because the page's buffer_heads is still
> locked.  So, the re-dirtyed page is re-submited to device by
> periodically wb_kupdate()?

filemap_fdatawrite() won't redirty the page.  It will wait on the pending 
writeback.

-chris

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-03-02 13:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-26 23:08 col-pepper
2006-02-27  0:51 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-27 22:19   ` col-pepper
2006-02-27 23:12     ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-28 18:47       ` Chris Mason
2006-02-28 19:10         ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-28 19:48           ` Chris Mason
     [not found]         ` <87u0aiw6pi.fsf@duaron.myhome.or.jp>
2006-03-01 15:23           ` Chris Mason
     [not found]             ` <87mzg9wst0.fsf@duaron.myhome.or.jp>
2006-03-02 13:45               ` Chris Mason [this message]
2006-03-02 14:07                 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2006-03-02 17:01                   ` Chris Mason
2006-03-02 18:14                     ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2006-03-29  2:13         ` Mathis Ahrens
2006-03-30 17:35           ` col-pepper
2006-02-28  0:52     ` Machida, Hiroyuki
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-02-26 22:55 col-pepper
     [not found] <op.s5cj47sxj68xd1@mail.piments.com>
     [not found] ` <op.s5jpqvwhui3qek@mail.piments.com>
     [not found]   ` <op.s5kxhyzgfx0war@mail.piments.com>
     [not found]     ` <op.s5kx7xhfj68xd1@mail.piments.com>
     [not found]       ` <op.s5kya3t0j68xd1@mail.piments.com>
     [not found]         ` <op.s5ky2dbcj68xd1@mail.piments.com>
     [not found]           ` <op.s5ky71nwj68xd1@mail.piments.com>
     [not found]             ` <op.s5kzao2jj68xd1@mail.piments.com>
2006-02-26 22:50               ` col-pepper
2006-02-27 13:28                 ` Lennart Sorensen
2006-02-27 13:50                   ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-27 14:06                     ` Anton Altaparmakov
2006-02-27 14:27                       ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-27 14:41                         ` Anton Altaparmakov
2006-02-27 21:04                           ` col-pepper
2006-02-27 21:17                             ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-27 23:21                               ` col-pepper
2006-02-27 21:32                             ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-02-27 23:21                               ` col-pepper
2006-02-28 13:10                                 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-02-28 13:52                                   ` Sergei Organov
2006-02-28 15:18                                   ` Lennart Sorensen
2006-02-28 16:16                                     ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-02-28 17:23                                       ` Sergei Organov
2006-02-28 18:09                                       ` Krzysztof Halasa
2006-02-28 17:16                                   ` col-pepper
2006-02-28 22:38                                 ` Pavel Machek
2006-03-01  4:28                                   ` Kyle Moffett
2006-03-02  8:23                                   ` col-pepper
2006-03-02  8:32                                     ` Pavel Machek
2006-02-28 16:11                             ` Helge Hafting
2006-02-28 22:37                             ` Pavel Machek
2006-02-27 14:26                   ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-02-27 18:53                     ` Jan Engelhardt

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