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Message-Id: <1232124141.15209.8.camel@norville.austin.ibm.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 10:42:21 -0600
From: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
t-sato@...jp.nec.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow SysRq emergency sync to thaw frozen filesystems
On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 10:21 -0600, Dave Kleikamp wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 21:49 -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> > oh, hrm. Maybe I didn't think enough about how it's handed off to
> > pdflush; I could rearrange if that makes sense? Or maybe handing to
> > pdflush is wrong, it was just so convenient....
>
> I don't understand the reason for handing it to pdflush. I would expect
> thaw to be very fast. Do we expect it to block anywhere, and if so, for
> very long? Not that I see any problem with it.
Eric pointed out on irc that this is in interrupt context, so even
taking a mutex is not allowed. I now agree that handing it to pdflush
is reasonable.
Shaggy
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David Kleikamp
IBM Linux Technology Center
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