On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 03:00:13PM -0400, Josef Bacik wrote: > V1->V2: Check to see if our current ppos is >= i_size after a short DIO read, > just in case it was actually a short read and we need to just return. > > This is similar to what already happens in the write case. If we have a short > read while doing O_DIRECT, instead of just returning, fallthrough and try to > read the rest via buffered IO. BTRFS needs this because if we encounter a > compressed or inline extent during DIO, we need to fallback on buffered. If the > extent is compressed we need to read the entire thing into memory and > de-compress it into the users pages. I have tested this with fsx and everything > works great. Thanks, This seems safe to me, but I'm a bit worried about potential breakages. Did you test this with xfsqa on xfs and ext3/4 to make sure there are no regressions? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
