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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] fs: allow short direct-io reads to be completed via buffered IO
Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 10:14:18 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100504001418.GH2591@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100503172702.GB3961@localhost.localdomain>

On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 01:27:02PM -0400, Josef Bacik wrote:
> This is similar to what already happens in the write case.  If we have a short
> read while doing O_DIRECT, instead of just returning, fallthrough and try to
> read the rest via buffered IO.  BTRFS needs this because if we encounter a
> compressed or inline extent during DIO, we need to fallback on buffered.  If the
> extent is compressed we need to read the entire thing into memory and
> de-compress it into the users pages.  I have tested this with fsx and everything
> works great.  Thanks,

Won't this mean that any direct IO read that spans EOF  (i.e. get a
short read) now attempt a buffered IO (that will fail) before returning?

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-04  0:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-03 17:27 [PATCH 1/3] fs: allow short direct-io reads to be completed via buffered IO Josef Bacik
2010-05-04  0:14 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2010-05-04 15:27   ` Josef Bacik
2010-05-04 23:07     ` Dave Chinner
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-05-03 16:11 Josef Bacik

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