Re: is sync_buffers() SMP-safe?

Tigran Aivazian (tigran@sco.COM)
Wed, 29 Dec 1999 16:12:45 +0000 (GMT)

ok, thanks Andrea. I also assumed that file_fsync() is safe. Hope I am not
too far off the truth :)

btw, the SMP-safe fsync(2)/fdatasync(2) patch can be found at

http://www.ocston.org/~tigran/patches/fsync-2.3.35.patch

if you have any comments - let me know.

Regards,
Tigran

On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
>
> >a quick question (see subject). Looks SMP-safe to me but if anyone knows
> >otherwise, please let me know.
>
> On 2.3.x it's SMP safe, on 2.2.x you need the big kernel lock to recall
> it.
>
> Andrea
>
>

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