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List:       linux-fsdevel
Subject:    Re: ext3 journal buffers holding up buffer sync activity
From:       Steve Lord <lord () sgi ! com>
Date:       2003-02-24 23:31:36
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On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 14:02, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Steve Lord <lord@sgi.com> wrote:
> >
> > Looking at the head of the lru_list of dirty buffers I found
> > a journal buffer with a flushtime in the future, and sitting
> > behind it, a lot of buffers which had flushtimes in the past.
> > 
> 
> argh.  We hit this a while back but it got forgotten about :(
> 
> <digs through patches directory>
> 
> This looks like it'll fix it?


Yep, seems to do the trick around here. We are probably double
setting the flushtime with just this code though right, the
mark_buffer_dirty path will do both these things.

Steve

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