Re: [PATCH 24/28] AFS: Add a function to excise a rejected write from the pagecache [try #2]

2007-12-17 Thread David Howells
Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This reintroduces the fault vs truncate race window, which must be fixed. Hmmm... perhaps. I remember that cropped up in NFS, but I'm doing things a bit differently to NFS. Remind me again how that worked please. Also, it is adding a fair bit of

Re: [PATCH 24/28] AFS: Add a function to excise a rejected write from the pagecache [try #2]

2007-12-17 Thread Nick Piggin
On Tuesday 18 December 2007 09:54, David Howells wrote: Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This reintroduces the fault vs truncate race window, which must be fixed. Hmmm... perhaps. What do you mean by perhaps? I remember that cropped up in NFS, but I'm doing things a bit differently

Re: [PATCH 24/28] AFS: Add a function to excise a rejected write from the pagecache [try #2]

2007-12-13 Thread Nick Piggin
On Thursday 06 December 2007 06:40, David Howells wrote: Add a function - cancel_rejected_write() - to excise a rejected write from the pagecache. This function is related to the truncation family of routines. It permits the pages modified by a network filesystem client (such as AFS) to be

[PATCH 24/28] AFS: Add a function to excise a rejected write from the pagecache [try #2]

2007-12-05 Thread David Howells
Add a function - cancel_rejected_write() - to excise a rejected write from the pagecache. This function is related to the truncation family of routines. It permits the pages modified by a network filesystem client (such as AFS) to be excised and discarded from the pagecache if the attempt to