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From: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] xfstests: add mapped write fsx operations to 091
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 14:04:12 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1310151852.3024.39.camel@doink> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1310086426-30605-5-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com>

On Fri, 2011-07-08 at 10:53 +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
> 
> The recent busted fsx updates caused fsx to execute fsx with direct
> IO and mmapped reads and writes on an XFS filesystem. The result
> uncovered a direct-IO write vs mmap read bug to do with EOF
> sub-block zeroing on the direct IO write.
> 
> Hence whiel we do not recommend that pepole mix DIO with mmap on the
> same file, we should at least have tests that exercise it as they
> often show up other problems like this.
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>

Good idea.

Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>


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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-08  0:53 [PATCH 0/4, V2] xfstests: fsx is fallocate challenged Dave Chinner
2011-07-08  0:53 ` [PATCH 1/4] xfstests: fix fsx fpunch test to actually test for fpunch Dave Chinner
2011-07-08 17:56   ` Alex Elder
2011-07-08  0:53 ` [PATCH 2/4] xfstests: fsx fallocate support is b0rked Dave Chinner
2011-07-08 18:58   ` Alex Elder
2011-07-11  6:14     ` Dave Chinner
2011-07-08  0:53 ` [PATCH 3/4] xfstests: fix brain-o in fallocate log dump Dave Chinner
2011-07-08 19:02   ` Alex Elder
2011-07-08  0:53 ` [PATCH 4/4] xfstests: add mapped write fsx operations to 091 Dave Chinner
2011-07-08 19:04   ` Alex Elder [this message]
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2011-06-27  5:48 ***** SUSPECTED SPAM ***** [PATCH 0/4] xfstests: fsx is fallocate challenged Dave Chinner
2011-06-27  5:48 ` [PATCH 4/4] xfstests: add mapped write fsx operations to 091 Dave Chinner
2011-06-27 21:38   ` Eric Sandeen

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