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2009 Feb 02
5
[PATCH] btrfs: call mark_inode_dirty when i_size is updated
Hi Chris. I think it is needed to call mark_inode_dirty() when file size expands in order to flush metadata updates to HDD through sync() syscall or background_writeout(). Thanks. Signed-off-by: Hisashi Hifumi <hifumi.hisashi@oss.ntt.co.jp> diff -Nrup linux-2.6.29-rc3.org/fs/btrfs/file.c linux-2.6.29-rc3/fs/btrfs/file.c --- linux-2.6.29-rc3.org/fs/btrfs/file.c 2009-02-02
2011 Jun 24
10
[PATCH 0/9] remove i_alloc_sem V2
i_alloc_sem has always been a bit of an odd "lock". It''s the only remaining rw_semaphore that can be released by a different thread than the one that locked it, and it''s use case in the core direct I/O code is more like a counter given that the writers already have external serialization. This series removes it in favour of a simpler counter scheme, thus getting rid