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From: "Jörn Engel" <joern@logfs.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@yandex.ru>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Write-back from inside FS - need suggestions
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 22:24:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070930202429.GA30514@lazybastard.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070929130011.c3a11139.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On Sat, 29 September 2007 13:00:11 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> err, it's basically an open-coded mutex via which one thread can get
> exclusive access to some parts of an inode's internals.  Perhaps it could
> literally be replaced with a mutex.  Exactly what I_LOCK protects has not
> been documented afaik.  That would need to be reverse engineered :(

I believe you actually have some documentation in your tree.  At least
the behaviour after my I_SYNC patch has been documented with that patch.

Jörn

-- 
"Error protection by error detection and correction."
-- from a university class

      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-09-30 20:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-28  9:16 Artem Bityutskiy
2007-09-28 10:29 ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-29  9:56 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2007-09-29 10:39   ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-29 10:44     ` Artem Bityutskiy
2007-09-29 19:10     ` Artem Bityutskiy
2007-09-29 20:00       ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-30  8:40         ` Artem Bityutskiy
2007-09-30 20:24         ` Jörn Engel [this message]

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