Re: [PATCH 36/42] VFS: export drop_pagecache_sb

On Friday 14 December 2007 02:24, Erez Zadok wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nick Piggin writes: > > On Monday 10 December 2007 13:42, Erez Zadok wrote: > > > Needed to maintain cache coherency after branch management. > > > > Hmm, I'd much prefer to be able to sleep in invalidate_mapping_

Re: [PATCH 36/42] VFS: export drop_pagecache_sb

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nick Piggin writes: > On Monday 10 December 2007 13:42, Erez Zadok wrote: > > Needed to maintain cache coherency after branch management. > > > > Hmm, I'd much prefer to be able to sleep in invalidate_mapping_pages > before this function gets exported. > > As it is

Re: [PATCH 36/42] VFS: export drop_pagecache_sb

On Monday 10 December 2007 13:42, Erez Zadok wrote: > Needed to maintain cache coherency after branch management. > Hmm, I'd much prefer to be able to sleep in invalidate_mapping_pages before this function gets exported. As it is, it can cause massive latencies on preemption and the inode_lock so

[PATCH 36/42] VFS: export drop_pagecache_sb

Needed to maintain cache coherency after branch management. Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/drop_caches.c |4 +++- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/drop_caches.c b/fs/drop_caches.c index 59375ef..90410ac 100644 --- a/fs/drop_caches.c +++ b