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From: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@tonian.com>
To: Fred Isaman <faisaman4@gmail.com>
Cc: "Myklebust, Trond" <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>,
	"Isaman, Fred" <Fred.Isaman@netapp.com>,
	"linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org" <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>,
	"stable@kernel.org" <stable@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pnfs: do not reset to mds if wb_offset != wb_pgbase
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 21:35:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5148BE0B.9080802@tonian.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADnza476e0FpXJJfE8OmXLRQUR3Zm_aZkX7JZRB=vGyZ-U2yDg@mail.gmail.com>

On 2013-03-18 19:04, Fred Isaman wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 12:22 PM, Benny Halevy <bhalevy@tonian.com> wrote:
> 
>>> NACK. I see no evidence that we've addressed the issues that were raised
>>> by Fred in commit 1825a0d08f22463e5a8f4b1636473efd057a3479 (NFS: prepare
>>> coalesce testing for directio).
>>> If you think that his concerns about the coalescing assumptions are no
>>> longer true, then please point to why this is the case. AFAICR that
>>> patch was added to fix corruption issues.
>>>
>>
>> We see no problems with this patch with the workloads we're testing.
>> Do you have a test that reproduces the original problem that we can try running?
>>
>> Benny
> 
> A problem case is if the layout ends within the page request, which
> can happen due to the misalignment.

First, the file layout currently supports only whole file layouts so I don't see
how that's a problem.
Regardless, I'd rather trim the layout segment to PAGE_SIZE boundaries
and get a new layout from the page aligned offset and on with minlength = PAGE_SIZE
(as we do today).

Benny

> 
> Fred
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  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-19 19:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1363617532-24172-1-git-send-email-bhalevy@tonian.com>
2013-03-18 15:55 ` [PATCH] pnfs: do not reset to mds if wb_offset != wb_pgbase Myklebust, Trond
2013-03-18 16:22   ` Benny Halevy
2013-03-18 16:39     ` Myklebust, Trond
2013-03-18 16:45       ` Benny Halevy
2013-03-18 17:09         ` Myklebust, Trond
2013-03-18 17:04     ` Fred Isaman
2013-03-19 19:35       ` Benny Halevy [this message]
2013-03-19 20:28         ` Fred Isaman
2013-03-19 20:38           ` Benny Halevy
2013-03-27 12:19           ` Benny Halevy
2013-04-28 15:20             ` Benny Halevy

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