Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 24 Aug 2015 15:32:42 -0400 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH block/for-linus] writeback: fix syncing of I_DIRTY_TIME inodes |
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Hello, Jan.
On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 09:08:47PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > Inode may contain writeback pages (but not dirty pages) without being on > any of the dirty lists. That is correct. Josef Bacik had patches to create
Hmmm... Can you please expand on how / why that happens? It's kinda weird to require writeback to walk all inodes regardless of their dirty states.
> a list to track inodes with pages under writeback but they clashed with > your patch series and they didn't get rebased yet AFAIR.
Wouldn't it make more sense to simply put them on one of the existing b_* lists?
Thanks.
-- tejun
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