Re: [PATCH] xfs: fix buffer lookup race on allocation failure

[Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 03:07:59PM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> I don't like this solution.  What speaks against building up the page
> array after the first buffer lookup failed, but before linking the
> buffer into the rbtree? That's the the inode cache and all the VFS
> caches do.

That could be done, I think. I always wondered why it was done after
insert, but never knew the reason so I didn't change the logic. I'll
respin it and see what happens.

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
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