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Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 19:14:51 -0400 From: Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu> To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com> Cc: ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>, Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@...gle.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: queue conversion after adding to inode's completed IO list On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 12:23:56PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: > On 08/06/2010 02:52 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote: > > By queuing the io end on the unwritten workqueue before adding it > > to our inode's list of completed IOs, I think we run the risk > > of the work getting completed, and the IO freed, before we try > > to add it to the inode's i_completed_io_list. > > > > It should be safe to add it to the inode's list of completed > > IOs, and -then- queue it for completion, I think. > > Ping? would be good to fix this race, this has jiaying's ack too. Added to the ext4 patch queue, thanks for the ping. - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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