Re: [PATCHSET v3 0/5] Support for RWF_UNCACHED

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On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 07:03:40PM -0700, Jens Axboe wrote:
> Tested and cleaned a bit, and added truncate protection through
> inode_dio_begin()/inode_dio_end().
> 
> https://git.kernel.dk/cgit/linux-block/commit/?h=buffered-uncached&id=6dac80bc340dabdcbfb4230b9331e52510acca87
> 
> This is much faster than the previous page cache dance, and I _think_
> we're ok as long as we block truncate and hole punching.

What about races between UNCACHED and regular buffered IO?  Seems like
we might end up sending overlapping writes to the device?




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