linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 2/2] writeback, xfs: call dirty_inode() with I_DIRTY_TIME

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Message-ID: <20200324083759.GA32036@infradead.org>
Date:   Tue, 24 Mar 2020 01:37:59 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Cc:     Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] writeback, xfs: call dirty_inode() with
 I_DIRTY_TIME_EXPIRED when appropriate

On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 01:58:38PM -0400, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> Christoph, Dave --- does this give you the notification that you were
> looking such that XFS could get the notification desired that it was
> the timestamps need to be written back?

I need to look at it in more detail as it seems convoluted.  Also the
order seems like you regress XFS in patch 1 and then fix it in patch 2?