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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: cmm@us.ibm.com
Cc: pbadari@us.ibm.com, suparna@in.ibm.com, sct@redhat.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC] Adding multiple block allocation
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 14:34:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050429143427.19b3990d.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1114809139.10473.70.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>  right now direct io write to a hole is actually handled by buffered IO.
>  If so, there must be some valid reason that I could not see now.

Oh yes, that's right.  It's all to do with the fixes which went in a year
ago to prevent concurrent readers from peeking at uninitialised disk
blocks.


  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-29 21:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-05  3:51 ext3 allocate-with-reservation latencies Lee Revell
2005-04-05  4:13 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-04-05  6:10   ` Mingming Cao
2005-04-05 16:38     ` Lee Revell
2005-04-06  5:35   ` Mingming Cao
2005-04-06  9:51     ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2005-04-06 16:53       ` Mingming Cao
2005-04-06 18:22         ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2005-04-06 19:03           ` Mingming Cao
2005-04-07  8:14     ` Ingo Molnar
2005-04-07 13:08       ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2005-04-07 19:16         ` Mingming Cao
2005-04-07 23:37         ` Mingming Cao
2005-04-08 14:40           ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2005-04-08 16:06             ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-04-08 18:10             ` Mingming Cao
2005-04-08 18:12               ` Lee Revell
2005-04-11 11:48               ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2005-04-11 18:38                 ` Mingming Cao
2005-04-11 19:12                   ` Lee Revell
2005-04-11 19:22                     ` Lee Revell
2005-04-11 19:57                   ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2005-04-12  6:41                     ` Mingming Cao
2005-04-12 11:18                       ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2005-04-12 23:27                         ` Mingming Cao
2005-04-13 10:29                           ` Stephen C. Tweedie
     [not found]                             ` <1113597161.3899.80.camel@localhost.localdomain>
2005-04-18 18:00                               ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2005-04-18 21:56                                 ` [Ext2-devel] " Mingming Cao
2005-04-22 22:10                             ` [RFC][PATCH] Reduce ext3 allocate-with-reservation lock latencies Mingming Cao
2005-04-28  3:45                               ` Lee Revell
2005-04-28  7:37                                 ` Mingming Cao
2005-04-28 16:12                                   ` Lee Revell
2005-04-28 18:34                                     ` Mingming Cao
2005-04-29  6:18                                       ` Mingming Cao
2005-04-28 19:14                                 ` [RFC] Adding multiple block allocation to current ext3 Mingming Cao
2005-04-29 13:52                                   ` [Ext2-devel] [RFC] Adding multiple block allocation Suparna Bhattacharya
2005-04-29 17:10                                     ` Mingming Cao
2005-04-29 19:42                                       ` Mingming Cao
2005-04-29 20:57                                         ` Andrew Morton
2005-04-29 21:12                                           ` Mingming Cao
2005-04-29 21:34                                             ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2005-04-30 16:00                                       ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2005-04-29 18:45                                     ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-04-29 23:22                                       ` Mingming Cao
2005-04-30 16:10                                         ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2005-04-30 17:11                                           ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2005-04-30 18:07                                             ` Mingming Cao
2005-05-02  4:46                                               ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2005-04-30 16:52                                       ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2005-04-30  0:33                                     ` Mingming Cao
2005-04-30  0:44                                     ` Mingming Cao
2005-04-30 17:03                                       ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2006-01-10 23:26                                   ` [PATCH 0/5] multiple block allocation to current ext3 Mingming Cao
2006-01-11  5:25                                     ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-11 19:17                                       ` Mingming Cao
2006-01-11 19:43                                         ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-11 21:31                                           ` Mingming Cao
2006-01-14  1:12                                           ` Fall back io scheduler for 2.6.15? Mingming Cao
2006-01-14  1:49                                             ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-14  5:22                                               ` Dave Jones
2006-01-16  8:43                                               ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-16 19:45                                                 ` [PATCH] Fall back io scheduler ( Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: Fall back io scheduler for 2.6.15?) Mingming Cao
2006-01-16 19:49                                                   ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-16 19:57                                                     ` Mingming Cao
2006-01-19 19:37                                                 ` Fall back io scheduler for 2.6.15? Nate Diller
2006-01-20  8:10                                                   ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-16 19:38                                               ` [Ext2-devel] " Mingming Cao
2005-04-29  6:28                               ` [PATCH] Reduce ext3 allocate-with-reservation lock latencies Mingming Cao

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