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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.20pre5aa1
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2002 16:56:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D769D99.CF054558@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20020904233528.GA1238@dualathlon.random

Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
> The 2.5 libaio that works with this kernel and 2.5 is here:
> 
>         http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/libaio/libaio-0.3.15-2.5.tar.gz

Thanks for doing this.  The lack of AIO-aware applications and of
testing tools for AIO is a bit of a worry at present.
 
> Only in 2.4.20pre5aa1: 00_prepare-write-fixes-3-1
> 
>         Also check the i_size is in sync with the last block we allocated in
>         the metadata, it won't be updated in the commit_write if prepare_write
>         is failing.

That's the right thing to do I guess.  Is this a problem in practice?
If prepare_write() fails, generic_file_write() will truncate back to
the current i_size?
 
> Only in 2.4.20pre5aa1: 9920_kgdb-1.gz
> 
>         kgdb from akpm.

Life in the fast lane ;)  Kudos to Amit Kale.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-09-04 23:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-04 23:35 2.4.20pre5aa1 Andrea Arcangeli
2002-09-04 23:56 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-09-05  0:25   ` 2.4.20pre5aa1 Andrea Arcangeli
2002-09-05 12:44 ` 2.4.20pre5aa1 Christoph Hellwig
2002-09-05 16:53   ` 2.4.20pre5aa1 Andrea Arcangeli
2002-09-05 17:09     ` 2.4.20pre5aa1 Christoph Hellwig
2002-09-05 18:41       ` 2.4.20pre5aa1 Andrea Arcangeli
2002-09-05 18:46         ` 2.4.20pre5aa1 Christoph Hellwig
2002-09-05 18:59           ` 2.4.20pre5aa1 Andrea Arcangeli
2002-09-05 19:02             ` 2.4.20pre5aa1 Christoph Hellwig
2002-09-05 19:13               ` 2.4.20pre5aa1 Andrea Arcangeli
2002-09-05 19:17                 ` 2.4.20pre5aa1 Christoph Hellwig
2002-09-05 18:48         ` 2.4.20pre5aa1 Christoph Hellwig
2002-09-05 19:06           ` 2.4.20pre5aa1 Andrea Arcangeli
2002-09-05 19:15             ` 2.4.20pre5aa1 Christoph Hellwig
2002-09-05 19:26               ` 2.4.20pre5aa1 Christoph Hellwig

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