Re: [PATCH block/for-linus] writeback: fix syncing of I_DIRTY_TIME inodes

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Mon Aug 24 2015 - 18:55:08 EST


Hello,

On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 05:45:35PM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote:
> That isn't true for pages being dirtied through set_page_dirty().
> It's guaranteed that a dirty inode remains on one of the b_* lists
> till there's no dirty page and writeback is complete.

I got confused here. inodes get removed from b_* once all IOs are
issued.

Thanks.

--
tejun
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