Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 5 Oct 2008 21:20:31 -0700 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/3] Fix fsync livelock |
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On Sun, 5 Oct 2008 23:30:51 -0400 (EDT > The point is that many fsync()s may run in parallel and you have just > one inode and just one chain. And if you add two-word list_head to a > page, to link it on this list, many developers will hate it for > increasing its size.
why to a page? a list head in the inode and chain up the bios.... or not make an actual list but just a "is the previous one done" thing it's not all that hard to get something that works on a per inode basis, that gives "wait for all io upto this one".
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