Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754711AbbHXWzE (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Aug 2015 18:55:04 -0400 Received: from mail-yk0-f175.google.com ([209.85.160.175]:36176 "EHLO mail-yk0-f175.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751786AbbHXWzB (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Aug 2015 18:55:01 -0400 Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 18:54:58 -0400 From: Tejun Heo To: Jan Kara Cc: Dave Chinner , Eryu Guan , Jens Axboe , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com, axboe@fb.com, Jan Kara , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@fb.com Subject: Re: [PATCH block/for-linus] writeback: fix syncing of I_DIRTY_TIME inodes Message-ID: <20150824225458.GQ28944@mtj.duckdns.org> References: <20150824011123.GA714@dastard> <20150824031816.GO17933@dhcp-13-216.nay.redhat.com> <20150824062425.GU3902@dastard> <20150824091959.GA2936@quack.suse.cz> <20150824145150.GA10029@mtj.duckdns.org> <20150824171144.GB27262@mtj.duckdns.org> <20150824190847.GA4234@quack.suse.cz> <20150824193242.GE28944@mtj.duckdns.org> <20150824210927.GA8823@quack.suse.cz> <20150824214535.GM28944@mtj.duckdns.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150824214535.GM28944@mtj.duckdns.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 601 Lines: 19 Hello, On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 05:45:35PM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote: > That isn't true for pages being dirtied through set_page_dirty(). > It's guaranteed that a dirty inode remains on one of the b_* lists > till there's no dirty page and writeback is complete. I got confused here. inodes get removed from b_* once all IOs are issued. Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/