Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261965AbVCHK20 (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Mar 2005 05:28:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261963AbVCHK20 (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Mar 2005 05:28:26 -0500 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:63161 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261965AbVCHK2V (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Mar 2005 05:28:21 -0500 Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 02:27:04 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: suparna@in.ibm.com Cc: sebastien.dugue@bull.net, linux-aio@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pbadari@us.ibm.com, daniel@osdl.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6.10 - direct-io async short read bug Message-Id: <20050308022704.6dc9da34.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20050308102700.GA4207@in.ibm.com> References: <1110189607.11938.14.camel@frecb000686> <20050307223917.1e800784.akpm@osdl.org> <20050308090946.GA4100@in.ibm.com> <20050308011814.706c094e.akpm@osdl.org> <20050308094159.GA4144@in.ibm.com> <20050308014141.08a546a9.akpm@osdl.org> <20050308102700.GA4207@in.ibm.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 492 Lines: 12 Suparna Bhattacharya wrote: > > But, I'm wondering if this solution just covers up the real reason > for the single thread problem ? We shouldn't even be issuing IOs > beyond i_size into the user-space buffer ! That's true. - 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/