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authorMingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>2008-07-11 19:27:31 -0400
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2008-07-11 19:27:31 -0400
commit61628a3f3a37af2bf25daf8e26fd6b76a78c4f76 (patch)
tree25375b739b2e3f65c8dff3d3dd2a78e0724d0f96 /fs/ext4/namei.h
parent06d6cf6959d22037fcec598f4f954db5db3d7356 (diff)
ext4: Invert lock ordering of page_lock and transaction start in delalloc
With the reverse locking, we need to start a transation before taking the page lock, so in ext4_da_writepages() we need to break the write-out into chunks, and restart the journal for each chunck to ensure the write-out fits in a single transaction. Updated patch from Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> which fixes delalloc sync hang with journal lock inversion, and address the performance regression issue. Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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