On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 19:09:29 -0400
Steve Dickson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Well, it wasn't attached, but I can simulate it.
> >
> > invalidate_complete_page() wants to be called from inside spinlocks by
> > drop_pagecache(), so if we wanted to pull the same trick there we'd need to
> > pass a new flag into invalidate_inode_pages().
> That seems abit broken (wrt performance) that drop_pagecache_sb() holds
> the fairly popular inode_lock while it invalidate pages...
> Nobody else seem to...
Yes, it was very rude of me. But it's just a debugging thing, and is
privileged.
I removed a cond_resched() from in there in the process. If we make the
invalidate_inode_pages() caller pass in a must_be_atomic flag then the
cond_resched() can be resuscitated.
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