From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Curtis Doty <Curtis@greenkey.net>
Cc: XFS <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: why xfs_write() race with O_DIRECT only?
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 13:38:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090406173846.GA30403@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49CD7912.6080508@GreenKey.net>
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 06:10:42PM -0700, Curtis Doty wrote:
> I'm guessing this is the race fixed in 2.6.29.
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=25051158
>
> But my app is running O_DIRECT and only calls pwrite(). Is there
> something I'm missing that explains the aio stuff etc.?
The aboe patch only matters when using dmapi. Can you send a simple
sample program or other kind of testcases that reproduces the bug that
you see?
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2009-03-28 1:10 why xfs_write() race with O_DIRECT only? Curtis Doty
2009-04-02 23:48 ` Curtis Doty
2009-04-06 17:38 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
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