Re: [PATCH 3/6] CIFS: Make write call work with strict cache mode (try #2)

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2010/12/6 Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@xxxxxxx>:
> On 12/01/2010 10:09 PM, Pavel Shilovsky wrote:
>> 2010/12/1 Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@xxxxxxx>:
>>>
>>> I just applied your patches on my test box, but I see that the fscache
>>> integration is not done, yet. Am I seeing older version of patches?
>>
>> What do you mean for "fscache integration"? I changed all
>> invalidate_inode_* calls to cifs_invalidate_mapping or setting
>> invalid_mapping flag - so, it seems to me that I don't miss places
>> where I affect cache but don't aware of fscache
>> (cifs_invalidate_mapping process fscache as well). Of course, it can
>> be - so, could you point me to such places, please?
>>
>
> Sorry about the delay in getting back. You're right the patches are
> taking care of relinquishing the cookies wherever appropriate.
> I have done some testing with both 'strictcache' and 'fsc' enabled and
> so far they work as expected. The tests involve doing file operations
> with fsc enabled always but strict cache enabled/disabled and watching
> fscache statistics via /proc/fs/fscache/stats). I didn't encounter any
> unexpected results.

Thank you very much for this testing!

Jeff, Suresh, as we have the good results on strict cache + fscache
and reviewed patch number 1 (cifsFileInfo_put part), could you review
other patches: 2) read (try #4), 3) write (try #4), 4) fsync (try #3),
5) mmap (try #3) and 6) mount option (try #2) please?

-- 
Best regards,
Pavel Shilovsky.
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