Re: 2.6.5-rc1-mm2 and direct_read_under and wb

[Daniel McNeil]

Andrew,

The test has been running over 5 hours now without seeing uninitialized
data.  I'll let it run overnight, but it looks like the small 
__block_write_full_page patch fixes the problem.

Daniel

On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 15:13, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Daniel McNeil <daniel@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I was thinking about this also, since this is included in the patch.
> > As long as the page stays dirty in radix tree so the sync writer
> > can find it, then the sync writer can wait on the locked buffers.
> > 
> > I am giving it a try and will let you know.
> 
> Please do.
> 
> Redirtyng the pages in this manner does mean that background_writeout()
> could get stuck in a loop trying to write the same batch of pages over and
> over again, until the I/O completes.
> 
> I'll take another look at marking the pages which back the ll_rw_blk
> buffers as being under writeback.
> 
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