linux-kernel - Re: [patch 8/8] fs: add i_op->sync

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Message-ID: <20110107044836.GB4552@amd>
Date:	Fri, 7 Jan 2011 15:48:36 +1100
From:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...nel.dk>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...nel.dk>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 8/8] fs: add i_op->sync_inode

On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 03:49:11PM -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 08:52:31PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > OK I missed that part about not requiring dirty metadata to be written,
> > just currently ongoing async operations. But then I don't understand how
> > it would be used by nfsd, how does nfsd start some async operation on
> > the inode metadata such that ->commit_metadata would do anything useful
> > for it?
> 
> NFSD calls various inode operations (create/mkdir/mknod/link/symlink/
> rename/unlink/rmdir/setattr) and then requires those operations to be
> on disk before completing the request to the client, but it does not
> require other dirty state to be written (data, unlogged size
> or timestamp updates).  Take a look at the XFS implementation: it just
> checks if the inode is still pinned (that is in the in-memory log, but
> not commited to disk) and if so forces the log up to the log buffer
> that contains the last changes to the inode.

OK, I don't exactly see why a sync_inode with appropriate flag could
not solve that problem. I'll take a bit more look through nfs and
xfs. Thanks...

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