On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@xxxxxx> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 12/11/2013 09:26 PM, Jan Kara wrote: >> Thanks! So this works more or less as expected - trinity issued a >> read at absurdly high offset so we created pagecache page a that >> offset and tried to read data into it. That failed. We left the >> page in the pagecache where it was for reclaim to reclaim it when >> free pages are needed. Everything works as designed except we could >> possibly argue that it's not the most efficient way to use >> pages... >> >> Patch 'vfs: fix a bug when we do some dio reads with append dio >> writes' (http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-fsdevel/msg70899.html) >> should actually change the situation and we won't unnecessarily >> cache these pages. >> > confirmed - applied to latest git tree of Linus I helps. Good to know! :-) -- Thanks, //richard -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href