linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6/6] NFS: return -EAGAIN when skipped commit in nfs_commit_unstable

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Date:	Thu, 21 Apr 2011 00:40:08 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>,
	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
	Itaru Kitayama <kitayama@...bb4u.ne.jp>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] NFS: return -EAGAIN when skipped commit in
 nfs_commit_unstable_pages()

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 11:00:09AM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> It's probably not sane to return success while redirtying the inode at
> the same time in ->write_inode().

It is not, as it really confuses the writeback code. 
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