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From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] Btrfs: add basic DIO read support
Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 10:55:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100507095537.GD19699@shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100506190101.GD13974@dhcp231-156.rdu.redhat.com>

Josef Bacik wrote:
> 3) Lock the entire range during DIO.  I originally had it so we would lock the
> extents as get_block was called, and then unlock them as the endio function was
> called, which worked great, but if we ever had an error in the submit_io hook,
> we could have locked an extent that would never be submitted for IO, so we
> wouldn't be able to unlock it, so this solution fixed that problem and made it a
> bit cleaner.

Does this prevent concurrent DIOs to overlapping or nearby ranges?

Thanks,
-- Jamie

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-05-07  9:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-06 19:01 [PATCH 3/3] Btrfs: add basic DIO read support Josef Bacik
2010-05-06 21:14 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-05-07  9:55 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2010-05-07 13:40   ` Josef Bacik
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-05-03 17:28 Josef Bacik
2010-05-03 16:11 [PATCH 1/3] fs: allow short direct-io reads to be completed via buffered IO Josef Bacik
2010-05-03 16:11 ` [PATCH 2/3] direct-io: add a hook for the fs to provide its own submit_bio function Josef Bacik
2010-05-03 16:11   ` [PATCH 3/3] Btrfs: add basic DIO read support Josef Bacik

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