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Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 13:28:21 -0800
From: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
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To: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
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       "'Andrew Morton'" <akpm@osdl.org>, pbadari@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [patch] bug fix in dio handling write error - v2
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> Taking one of your earlier idea, how about the following patch: separating
> out IO completion code from partial IO tracking?

I like that, and I think it closes the lost write error hole.  Could we
call it something like io_errno, though?  "completion_code" to me sounds
like -ve errno or +ve bytes read.

I think there are still bugs dealing with errors, but I guess we can
tackle them with seperate patches.

- z
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