Re: NR_UNSTABLE_FS vs. NR_FILE_DIRTY: double counting pages?

Ethan Solomita wrote:

Trond Myklebust wrote:

It should not happen. If the page is on the unstable list, then it will
be committed before nfs_updatepage is allowed to redirty it. See the
recent fixes in 2.6.21-rc7.

Above I present a codepath called straight from sys_write() which seems to do what I say. I could be wrong, but can you address the code paths I show above which seem to set both?

Sorry about my quick reply, I'd misunderstood what you were saying. I'll take a look at what you say.

	Thanks,
	-- Ethan
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