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Message-ID: <4C817292.9070000@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:11:30 -0500 From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com> To: ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] ext4: a couple writeback path fixes Eric Sandeen wrote: > I've found a couple small problems in the ext4_da_writepages path; > > 1) ext4_num_dirty_pages() can continue looping after max_pages is reached > - this leads to wasted cpu cycles during writeback > > 2) bumping nr_to_write can wrap if we started with LONG_MAX > - Not sure of all ramifications, but nr_to_write = -8 can't be good > > -Eric sigh just nak this whole thing for now, too many errors. Will resubmit after more careful reading, patching, and testing. Sorry for the noise. -Eric -- 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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