Re: nfs invalidates lose pte dirty bits

From: Andrea Arcangeli
Date: Thu Dec 22 2005 - 21:35:56 EST


On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 06:30:49PM -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> See the latest git release where we introduce the nfs_sync_mapping()
> helper.

So you also still break completely with threaded programs, did you
consider that while fixing the most obvious problem? Isn't that a
problem too? What about my suggestion of invalidate_inode_clean_pages?

Still I wonder if messing with ptes for invalidates is worth it.
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