On 6/15/16, 03:16, "Christoph Hellwig" <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >Explanation of why reads are more special than writes here or in >general why they are safe? > With the new locking, we already have exclusion between buffered I/O and direct I/O, and so the only remaining use case for inode_dio_wait() is to wait for writes to complete in operations like fsync(). Cheers Trond ��.n��������+%������w��{.n�����{��w���jg��������ݢj����G�������j:+v���w�m������w�������h�����٥