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From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
To: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org,
	wen.gang.wang@oracle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NFS: Fix "BUG at fs/aio.c:554!"
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 10:37:35 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTiknrso7mQbTiXNF3MLz+RPi52M1s+DV1XaxciO=@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1295479900.22151.19.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org>

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Trond Myklebust
<Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 10:26 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Trond Myklebust

>> > Also, why is EIO the correct reply when no bytes were read/written? Why
>> > shouldn't the VFS aio code be able to cope with a zero byte reply?
>>
>> What would it do?
>
> Just return that zero byte reply to userland.
>
> zero bytes is a valid reply for ordinary read() and write(), so why
> should we have to do anything different for aio_read()/aio_write()?

It doesn't give userspace much to do. zero reply from read means
EOF. Zero reply from write is pretty useless, I don't think we do it
in the buffered write path -- we either ensure we write at least
something or have a meaningful error to return.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-19 23:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-19 22:36 [PATCH] NFS: Fix "BUG at fs/aio.c:554!" Chuck Lever
2011-01-19 23:25 ` Trond Myklebust
2011-01-19 23:26   ` Nick Piggin
2011-01-19 23:31     ` Trond Myklebust
2011-01-19 23:37       ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2011-01-19 23:39         ` Chuck Lever
2011-01-19 23:42           ` Nick Piggin
2011-01-19 23:56             ` Trond Myklebust
2011-01-19 23:49         ` Trond Myklebust
2011-01-19 23:50           ` Nick Piggin
2011-01-19 23:57           ` Chuck Lever
2011-01-19 23:31   ` Chuck Lever
2011-01-21  2:42 ` Wengang Wang

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