On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 10:23:01AM -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > buffered read: shared > > direct I/O exclusive if pagecache is present, then > > demote to shared for actual I/O, > > shared only if no pages are present on > > the file > > I think we should try to close the truncate race first. Then let?s look at whether or not people need better consistency with the page cache. With the current locking model that will require the i_mutex in both read and write around the i_dio_count increment. The XFS model avoids taking an exclusive lock for the direct I/O fast path. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
