Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261844AbTISWNQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Sep 2003 18:13:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261858AbTISWNQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Sep 2003 18:13:16 -0400 Received: from e2.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.102]:19189 "EHLO e2.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261844AbTISWNN convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Sep 2003 18:13:13 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Badari Pulavarty To: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: use O_DIRECT open file, when read will hang. Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 15:12:06 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.1 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, suparna@in.ibm.com References: <20030919124631.3b4e6301.hugang@soulinfo.com> <200309190939.18796.pbadari@us.ibm.com> <20030919095736.284aaa9f.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20030919095736.284aaa9f.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: <200309191512.06188.pbadari@us.ibm.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 790 Lines: 22 On Friday 19 September 2003 09:57 am, Andrew Morton wrote: > Badari Pulavarty wrote: > > I am also seeing some kind of regression on raw in 2.6.0-test5-mm2. > > What is "some kind of regression"? > > > Unfortunately, this happens only with huge database benchmarks. > > I still haven't narrowed it down. > > Use mm3 - it has fixes. Daniel McNeil reports that mm3 fixes the dbt2 > problems he was seeing. My database tests work fine with 2.6.0-test5-mm3. My database doesn't complain about EFAULTs any more. Thanks, Badari - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/