From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Terje Eggestad <terje.eggestad@scali.no>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Subject: Re: O_DIRECT broken in stock 2.4.13
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 04:03:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011115040352.V1381@athlon.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1005747508.1310.3.camel@pc-16.office.scali.no> <20011114125048.A32600@figure1.int.wirex.com>
In-Reply-To: <20011114125048.A32600@figure1.int.wirex.com>; from chris@wirex.com on Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 12:50:48PM -0800
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 12:50:48PM -0800, Chris Wright wrote:
> * Terje Eggestad (terje.eggestad@scali.no) wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > open( , O_DIRECT) succeds, fcntl set and unset of the O_DIRECT flag is
> > ok, but I get buffered writes anyway.
> >
> > This works in 2.4.10
>
> iirc, this was disabled shortly after 2.4.10 (like 2.4.11-pre1 or 2).
> i believe the flag is still valid, however, i think the direct_io internals
> were removed.
Yes, I fixed it in my tree.
ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.4/2.4.15pre1aa1/00_o_direct-4
Please Linus or Marcelo apply the above patch to the kernel.
Andrea
prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-15 3:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-14 14:18 O_DIRECT broken in stock 2.4.13 Terje Eggestad
2001-11-14 20:50 ` Chris Wright
2001-11-15 3:03 ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
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