From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261217AbVFMTeQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Jun 2005 15:34:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261227AbVFMTeQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Jun 2005 15:34:16 -0400 Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:18916 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261217AbVFMTeN (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Jun 2005 15:34:13 -0400 Message-ID: <42ADDFA5.6000904@pobox.com> Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 15:33:57 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-6 (X11/20050513) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Benjamin LaHaise CC: torvalds@osdl.org, linux-aio@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix do_sync_(read|write) to properly handle aio retries References: <20050613181857.GA11285@kvack.org> In-Reply-To: <20050613181857.GA11285@kvack.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Benjamin LaHaise wrote: > When do_sync_(read|write) encounters an aio method that makes use of the > retry mechanism, they fail to correctly retry the operation. This fixes > that by adding the appropriate sleep and retry mechanism. Don't forget to send patches to akpm@osdl.org as well. He's evolved into the main collector of random patches, as well as being the 2.6 series maintainer. Jeff