Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030383AbVLWCgI (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Dec 2005 21:36:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030384AbVLWCgH (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Dec 2005 21:36:07 -0500 Received: from 217-133-42-200.b2b.tiscali.it ([217.133.42.200]:16997 "EHLO opteron.random") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030383AbVLWCgG (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Dec 2005 21:36:06 -0500 Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 03:36:03 +0100 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: Trond Myklebust Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: nfs invalidates lose pte dirty bits Message-ID: <20051223023603.GY9576@opteron.random> References: <20051222175550.GT9576@opteron.random> <1135294250.3685.16.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1135294250.3685.16.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 661 Lines: 14 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. - 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/