application syncing options (was Re: [PATCH] Memory management livelock)

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To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...>, Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, <linux-mm@...>, <agk@...>, <mbroz@...>, <chris@...>
Date: Friday, October 3, 2008 - 11:52 am

On Fri, 3 Oct 2008, Nick Piggin wrote:

>> *What* is, forever? Data integrity syncs should have pages operated on

I've seen lots of discussions here about different options in syncing. in
this case a fix is to do a fsync of a range. I've also seen discussions of
how the kernel filesystem code can do ordered writes without having to
wait for them with the use of barriers, is this capability exported to
userspace? if so, could you point me at documentation for it?

David Lang
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[PATCH] Memory management livelock, Mikulas Patocka, (Mon Sep 22, 5:10 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Memory management livelock, Mikulas Patocka, (Tue Sep 23, 6:34 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Memory management livelock, Andrew Morton, (Tue Sep 23, 6:49 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Memory management livelock, Nick Piggin, (Thu Oct 2, 10:32 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Memory management livelock, Nick Piggin, (Thu Oct 2, 10:54 pm)
application syncing options (was Re: [PATCH] Memory manageme..., , (Fri Oct 3, 11:52 am)
Re: [PATCH] Memory management livelock, Mikulas Patocka, (Fri Oct 3, 7:26 am)
Re: [PATCH] Memory management livelock, Nick Piggin, (Fri Oct 3, 8:31 am)
Re: [PATCH] Memory management livelock, Alasdair G Kergon, (Fri Oct 3, 10:36 am)
Re: [PATCH] Memory management livelock, Mikulas Patocka, (Fri Oct 3, 9:50 am)
Re: [PATCH] Memory management livelock, Alasdair G Kergon, (Fri Oct 3, 10:50 am)
Re: [PATCH] Memory management livelock, Andrew Morton, (Thu Oct 2, 10:40 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Memory management livelock, Nick Piggin, (Thu Oct 2, 10:59 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Memory management livelock, Andrew Morton, (Thu Oct 2, 11:14 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Memory management livelock, Nick Piggin, (Thu Oct 2, 11:47 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Memory management livelock, Andrew Morton, (Thu Oct 2, 11:56 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Memory management livelock, Mikulas Patocka, (Fri Oct 3, 7:43 am)
Re: [PATCH] Memory management livelock, Nick Piggin, (Fri Oct 3, 8:27 am)
Re: [PATCH] Memory management livelock, Mikulas Patocka, (Fri Oct 3, 9:53 am)
Re: [PATCH] Memory management livelock, Nick Piggin, (Fri Oct 3, 12:07 am)
Re: [PATCH] Memory management livelock, Andrew Morton, (Fri Oct 3, 12:17 am)
Re: [PATCH] Memory management livelock, Nick Piggin, (Fri Oct 3, 12:29 am)
Re: [PATCH] Memory management livelock, Mikulas Patocka, (Tue Sep 23, 7:11 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Memory management livelock, Andrew Morton, (Tue Sep 23, 7:46 pm)
[PATCH 3/3] Memory management livelock, Mikulas Patocka, (Wed Sep 24, 2:53 pm)
[PATCH 2/3] Memory management livelock, Mikulas Patocka, (Wed Sep 24, 2:52 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2/3] Memory management livelock, Andrew Morton, (Thu Oct 2, 1:54 am)
[PATCH] documentation: explain memory barriers, Randy Dunlap, (Wed Oct 8, 9:12 pm)
Re: [PATCH] documentation: explain memory barriers, Nick Piggin, (Thu Oct 9, 1:35 pm)
Re: [PATCH] documentation: explain memory barriers, Chris Snook, (Wed Oct 8, 9:17 pm)
Re: [PATCH] documentation: explain memory barriers, Andrew Morton, (Wed Oct 8, 9:31 pm)
Re: [PATCH] documentation: explain memory barriers, Chris Snook, (Thu Oct 9, 1:51 am)
Re: [PATCH] documentation: explain memory barriers, Ben Hutchings, (Thu Oct 9, 5:58 am)
Re: [PATCH] documentation: explain memory barriers, Nick Piggin, (Thu Oct 9, 5:27 pm)
Re: [PATCH] documentation: explain memory barriers, Nick Piggin, (Thu Oct 9, 1:29 pm)
[PATCH 3/3] Fix fsync-vs-write misbehavior, Mikulas Patocka, (Sun Oct 5, 6:16 pm)
[PATCH 2/3] Fix fsync livelock, Mikulas Patocka, (Sun Oct 5, 6:14 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2/3] Fix fsync livelock, Arjan van de Ven, (Sun Oct 5, 6:33 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2/3] Fix fsync livelock, Mikulas Patocka, (Sun Oct 5, 7:02 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2/3] Fix fsync livelock, Arjan van de Ven, (Sun Oct 5, 7:07 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2/3] Fix fsync livelock, Mikulas Patocka, (Sun Oct 5, 7:18 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2/3] Fix fsync livelock, Arjan van de Ven, (Sun Oct 5, 7:28 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2/3] Fix fsync livelock, Mikulas Patocka, (Sun Oct 5, 8:01 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2/3] Fix fsync livelock, Dave Chinner, (Sun Oct 5, 10:51 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2/3] Fix fsync livelock, Arjan van de Ven, (Sun Oct 5, 8:30 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2/3] Fix fsync livelock, Pavel Machek, (Wed Oct 8, 6:56 am)
Re: [PATCH 2/3] Fix fsync livelock, Mikulas Patocka, (Sun Oct 5, 11:30 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2/3] Fix fsync livelock, Arjan van de Ven, (Mon Oct 6, 12:20 am)
Re: [PATCH 2/3] Fix fsync livelock, Mikulas Patocka, (Mon Oct 6, 9:00 am)
Re: [PATCH 2/3] Fix fsync livelock, Arjan van de Ven, (Mon Oct 6, 9:50 am)
Re: [PATCH 2/3] Fix fsync livelock, Mikulas Patocka, (Mon Oct 6, 4:44 pm)
[PATCH 1/3] bit mutexes, Mikulas Patocka, (Sun Oct 5, 6:14 pm)
[PATCH 1/3] Memory management livelock, Mikulas Patocka, (Wed Sep 24, 2:51 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Memory management livelock, Mikulas Patocka, (Wed Sep 24, 2:50 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Memory management livelock, Andrew Morton, (Mon Sep 22, 8:48 pm)