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From: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] O_DIRECT locking rework
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 18:22:07 -0400
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On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 02:52:03PM -0700, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> > 
> > Thanks, I missed an i_mutex change.  Let me audit mutexes coming in and
> > out again and resend.
> > 
> > I think the new rules should be:
> > 
> > reads: don't need i_mutex at all
> > writes: don't need i_mutex for io inside i_size.
> > 
> > Oh, and don't mess with i_mutex under DIO_OWN_LOCKING.
> 
> No problem.
> 
> I ran into one more nasty looking bug ..

Neat.  Which fsx command line did you use?

-chris