NFS: Ensure we commit after writeback is complete
If the page cache is being flushed, then we want to ensure that we
do start a commit once the pages are done being flushed.
If we just wait until all I/O is done to that file, we can end up
livelocking until the balance_dirty_pages() mechanism puts its
foot down and forces I/O to stop.
So instead we do more or less the same thing that O_DIRECT does,
and set up a counter to tell us when the flush is done,
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>
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