From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: libata in 2.4.24?
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 00:47:36 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031203004736.GB27306@mail.shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bqj41c$drr$1@gatekeeper.tmr.com>
bill davidsen wrote:
> With O_SYNC files there is the possibility of having a don't cache bit
> in the packet to the drive, even with write caching. With fsync I don't
> see any way to do it after the fact for only some of the data in the
> drive cache. That's just an observation.
With fsync, can't you write all the dirty pages with that bit set,
write _again_ all the pages in RAM which are clean but which have
never been written with the don't-cache bit, and read-then-write with
the bit set all the pages which are not in RAM but which were dirtied
and written without the don't cache bit set?
I know, it sounds a bit complicated :)
But would it work?
-- Jamie
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-03 0:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-28 18:27 linux-2.4.23 released Marcelo Tosatti
2003-11-28 19:06 ` Willy Tarreau
2003-11-28 22:55 ` J.A. Magallon
2003-11-29 22:26 ` libata in 2.4.24? Samuel Flory
2003-11-29 23:10 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-12-01 10:43 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-12-01 18:06 ` Samuel Flory
2003-12-01 21:12 ` Greg Stark
2003-12-01 21:23 ` Samuel Flory
2003-12-01 21:44 ` Greg Stark
2003-12-01 22:00 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-12-01 22:06 ` Samuel Flory
2003-12-01 22:00 ` Erik Steffl
2003-12-02 5:36 ` Greg Stark
[not found] ` <20031202055336.GO1566@mis-mike-wstn.matchmail.com>
2003-12-02 5:58 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-12-02 16:31 ` Greg Stark
2003-12-02 17:40 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-12-02 18:04 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-12-02 18:46 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-12-02 18:49 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-12-04 8:18 ` Jens Axboe
2003-12-02 18:02 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-12-02 18:51 ` Greg Stark
2003-12-02 19:06 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-12-02 20:10 ` Greg Stark
2003-12-02 20:16 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-12-02 20:34 ` Greg Stark
2003-12-02 22:34 ` bill davidsen
2003-12-02 23:02 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-12-02 23:18 ` bill davidsen
2003-12-02 23:40 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-12-03 0:01 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-12-03 0:47 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2003-12-07 5:33 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-12-01 21:36 ` Justin Cormack
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-12-01 13:41 Xose Vazquez Perez
2003-12-01 14:11 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-12-02 19:59 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2003-12-02 22:05 ` bill davidsen
2003-12-02 22:34 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-12-03 0:34 Xose Vazquez Perez
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