Hi,
On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 11:57:23AM -0700, Chris Mason wrote:
>
> The fs/inode.c and fs.h changes allow the FS to provide a dirty_inode
> call. I'm using this to log the inodes instead of allowing them to hit
> the dirty list, which saves me from deadlocks when try_to_free_pages
> forces a flush of the dirty inode list.
Isn't this going to be very inefficient when we are constantly
updating the inode's atime for a series of file reads? I'd have
thought that we'd _want_ to defer the writing of the inode as
long as possible in that case, precisely to avoid logging the
inode too many times.
--Stephen
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