Re: 2.6.5-rc1-mm2 and direct_read_under and wb

[Chris Mason]

On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 13:10, Daniel McNeil wrote:
> Andrew and Chris,
> 
> I re-ran the direct_read_under tests over the weekend on ext3 with
> the attached wb_rwsema patch and ran without errors.
> 
> It looks like the same thing as before -- async writebacks are causing
> the sync writebacks to miss pages.
> 
> Thoughts?

It does seem clear that's what is happening, but the part I don't
understand is exactly where they are racing.

-chris


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