From: "Aneesh Kumar K. V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH -V2 0/17] Buffered write and writeable mmap support for 9P
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On Sat,  5 Feb 2011 23:16:28 +0530, "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> The patch series implement buffered write and writeable mmap for 9P
> 
> Changes from V1:
> a) Add fsync and syncfs support
> 

I haven't yet addressed the previous review feedback from
Miklos. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1093869
Running 9p server and client on the same host even though possible
is not a strong use case at this point. I will get to that later.

The patch series also don't address cache consistency issue that
can arise due to direct modification in the server. I am not
sure we need to complicate the client code for that considering
the cache model that we follow is loose. 

In short the set of patches help the virtualization pass-through use case
(http://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/9psetup)

-aneesh
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