From: "hch@infradead.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 01:32:10 -0700 Message-ID: <20160426083210.GA364@infradead.org> References: <1459303190-20072-1-git-send-email-vishal.l.verma@intel.com> <1459303190-20072-6-git-send-email-vishal.l.verma@intel.com> <20160420205923.GA24797@infradead.org> <1461434916.3695.7.camel@intel.com> <20160425083114.GA27556@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "axboe@fb.com" , "jack@suse.cz" , "Verma, Vishal L" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "xfs@oss.sgi.com" , "hch@infradead.org" , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , "linux-block@vger.kernel.org" , "Wilcox, Matthew R" , "linux-nvdimm@ml01.01.org" , "linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" , "akpm@linux-foundation.org" , "linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org" , "viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk" To: Jeff Moyer Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 11:32:08AM -0400, Jeff Moyer wrote: > > EINVAL is a concern here. Not due to the right error reported, but > > because it means your current scheme is fundamentally broken - we > > need to support I/O at any alignment for DAX I/O, and not fail due to > > alignbment concernes for a highly specific degraded case. > > > > I think this whole series need to go back to the drawing board as I > > don't think it can actually rely on using direct I/O as the EIO > > fallback. > > The only callers of dax_do_io are direct_IO methods. They are because the DAX I/O pass is a mess, but that doesn't mean the user specific O_DIRECT on the open nessecarily. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs