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From: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
To: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Cc: suparna@in.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"'Andrew Morton'" <akpm@osdl.org>,
	pbadari@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [patch] bug fix in dio handling write error - v2
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 13:28:21 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <441F1E75.8050803@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200603192227.k2JMRNg30260@unix-os.sc.intel.com>


> Taking one of your earlier idea, how about the following patch: separating
> out IO completion code from partial IO tracking?

I like that, and I think it closes the lost write error hole.  Could we
call it something like io_errno, though?  "completion_code" to me sounds
like -ve errno or +ve bytes read.

I think there are still bugs dealing with errors, but I guess we can
tackle them with seperate patches.

- z

  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-20 21:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-19  9:27 [patch] bug fix in dio handling write error - v2 Chen, Kenneth W
2006-03-19 11:54 ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2006-03-19 22:27   ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-03-20 21:28     ` Zach Brown [this message]
2006-03-21  7:06     ` Suparna Bhattacharya

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