On Thu 10-09-09 13:27:30, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 01:51:02PM -0700, Mingming wrote: > ..... > ..... > > > > I think fsync() still won't work correctly since it can happen user sees > > > AIO completed, calls fsync() that completes, > > > > hmm, does fsync() ensure user sees AIO data completed? > > > > If we call fsync after getting AIO completion event and crash we should > ensure that the data can be read back properly. That is either > > a) we should ensure that we convert the extent before returning the io > completion event > b) Or the fsync should be able to guarantee that it will force the extent > conversion pending on the file. Exactly. a) should happen in the sync-io case where we can afford to do IO from the end_io callback (and due to flush_workqueue call, it happens with the current Mingming's patch so that is file). But for tha aio case, we have to somehow implement b). Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
