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From: Matt Klein <matt.klein@pikewerks.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Subject: Re: Cached IO Synchronization Question
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 08:56:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49DCC936.70509@pikewerks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1239204217.4557.2590.camel@laptop>

> 
> Note how do_generic_file_read() checks PageUptodate() and does a
> lock_page_killable() in case its not.
> 
> 
> 

As far as I can tell there is nothing to prevent the page from becoming
out of date (or someone doing a full page cached write) after the
PageUptodate() check returns up to date.

So I have concluded that cached read/write interleaving is not
synchronized. This is the behavior found on Windows.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-08 15:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-06 21:31 Cached IO Synchronization Question Matt Klein
2009-04-08 15:23 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-04-08 15:56   ` Matt Klein [this message]
2009-04-09  3:56     ` Nick Piggin

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