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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH take2 0/5] dio: clean up completion phase of
 direct_io_worker()
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 15:20:04 -0700
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On Mon,  2 Oct 2006 16:21:19 -0700 (PDT)
Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com> wrote:

> I've tested these on low end PC drives with aio-stress, the direct IO tests I
> could manage to get running in LTP, orasim, and some home-brew functional
> tests.

I trust a lot of testing was done on blocksize<pagesize filesystems?

And did you test direct-io into and out of hugepages?  `odread' and
`odwrite' from
http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/ext3-tools.tar.gz can be
used to test that.