Re: [PATCH 2/2] iomap: fall back to buffered writes for invalidation failures

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 09:46:33AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Failing to invalid the page cache means data in incoherent, which is
> a very bad state for the system.  Always fall back to buffered I/O
> through the page cache if we can't invalidate mappings.

Is that the right approach though?  I don't have a full picture in my head,
but wouldn't we be better off marking these pages as !Uptodate and doing
the direct I/O?



[Index of Archives]     [Reiser Filesystem Development]     [Ceph FS]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Security]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Linux FS]     [Yosemite National Park]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Samba]     [Device Mapper]     [Linux Media]

  Powered by Linux