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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Jeff Liu <jeff.liu@oracle.com>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE support
Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2011 12:11:07 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2fwjbky44.fsf@firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111002175902.GA9420@infradead.org> (Christoph Hellwig's message of "Sun, 2 Oct 2011 13:59:02 -0400")

Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> writes:
>
> And the most important thing is of course adding QA for it.  Josef
> already wrote an xfstests case that needs to be resurrected, compared
> against the latest Posix draft and if nessecary updated.

Also when you do it please make sure you don't break unlocked lseek()
The patches for that are in Al's queue.  Only take the lock
for SEEK_HOLE/DATA, but not for the other operations. Use the
new helper instead of cut'n'pasting code.

-Andi

-- 
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-02 19:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-02 15:04 SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE support Jeff Liu
2011-10-02 15:42 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-10-02 16:06   ` Jeff Liu
2011-10-02 17:59     ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-10-02 19:11       ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2011-10-03  4:04       ` Jeff Liu
2011-10-03 23:43         ` Dave Chinner
2011-10-04 13:02           ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-10-05  4:36             ` Dave Chinner
2011-10-05  5:32               ` Jeff Liu
2011-10-05  9:23                 ` Dave Chinner
2011-10-05 13:56                   ` Jeff Liu
2011-10-05  7:34               ` Michael Monnerie
2011-10-05  9:36                 ` Dave Chinner
2011-10-05 18:22                   ` Michael Monnerie
2011-10-06  0:32                     ` Dave Chinner
2011-11-14 10:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-11-14 12:47   ` Jeff Liu
2011-11-14 12:50     ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-11-19  8:29       ` XFS SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE support V1 Jeff Liu
2011-11-19  8:34         ` Jeff Liu
2011-11-19  8:37         ` [PATCH] Introduce SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE support to XFS V1 Jeff Liu
2011-11-19 19:11           ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-11-20 13:15             ` Jeff Liu
2011-11-20  0:30           ` Dave Chinner
2011-11-20 13:59             ` Jeff Liu
2011-11-20 15:30               ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-11-20 22:34                 ` Dave Chinner

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