From: Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NFS client doesn't flush dirty mmap'd pages during fsync/msync
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 15:58:33 +0100
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To: "Lever, Charles" <Charles.Lever@netapp.com>
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On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 05:55:53AM -0800, Lever, Charles wrote:
> > > With your patch, an fsync degenerates to a global sync
> > > on the mounted file system, if I'm not mistaken.
> 
> the patch does not change which list is passed to nfs_scan_list.
> nfs_scan_list is used by nfs_scan_dirty and nfs_scan_commit --
> so it always works on a single file at a time.

Ah, that was the point I missed.

Thanks,
Olaf
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