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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ext4/inode.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/ext4/inode.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c index 6324f74e0342..dff171c3a123 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c @@ -1970,7 +1970,7 @@ static void ext4_end_io_buffer_write(struct buffer_head *bh, int uptodate); * This function can get called via... * - ext4_da_writepages after taking page lock (have journal handle) * - journal_submit_inode_data_buffers (no journal handle) - * - shrink_page_list via pdflush (no journal handle) + * - shrink_page_list via the kswapd/direct reclaim (no journal handle) * - grab_page_cache when doing write_begin (have journal handle) * * We don't do any block allocation in this function. If we have page with @@ -4589,14 +4589,6 @@ static int ext4_expand_extra_isize(struct inode *inode, * inode out, but prune_icache isn't a user-visible syncing function. * Whenever the user wants stuff synced (sys_sync, sys_msync, sys_fsync) * we start and wait on commits. - * - * Is this efficient/effective? Well, we're being nice to the system - * by cleaning up our inodes proactively so they can be reaped - * without I/O. But we are potentially leaving up to five seconds' - * worth of inodes floating about which prune_icache wants us to - * write out. One way to fix that would be to get prune_icache() - * to do a write_super() to free up some memory. It has the desired - * effect. */ int ext4_mark_inode_dirty(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode) { |