On 2022/04/18 14:14, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > I'm starting to sound like a broken record as I'm stating it the third > time now, but: > > no, this does not in any way fix the problem of holding the invalidate > lock over long running I/O. It just does ease the symptoms in the least > important but apparently visible to you caller. > > What we need to do is to get the zeroing I/O out from under the > invalidate lock, just like how we don't do direct I/O under it. No action was taken for 11 months since the first hung. Christoph, when can you get to this work?
