Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 14:14:41 -0700
From: Dave Olien <dmo@osdl.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, maryedie@osdl.org
Subject: Re: FYI: dbt testing on 2.6.0-test4-mm4 fails
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Right now, we're looking over older test runs and tracking down exactly
which patch set seems to have caused a break.  We THINK we MIGHT have
a difference in behavior between mm3 and mm3-1.

We'll follow this path for a bit and see where it gets us.

But following that, yes we can put some prink's in and see where
that leads.

On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 10:20:42AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Dave Olien <dmo@osdl.org> wrote:
> >
> > I'm just mailing you this to keep you informed, Daniel McNeil and
> > I are investigating a failure of the dbt database workload test on
> > 2.6.0-test4-mm4.
> 
> hmm, the direct-io code hasn't changed significantly since February(!).
> 
> Which filesystem are you using?
> 
> One possibility is that some lower-level error occured in the filesystem or
> the device driver but the error code was not correctly propagated back. 
> Could you sprinkle error-path printk's in the direct-io code?
> 
> 
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