On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 10:05:35PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote: > From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> > > [ Upstream commit 244adf6426ee31a83f397b700d964cff12a247d3 ] > > This fixes the direct I/O versus writeback race which can reveal stale > data, and it improves the tail latency of commits on slow devices. > > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200125022254.1101588-1-tytso@xxxxxxx > Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> Any particular reason to be backporting this? I thought I saw some fixes for dioread_nolock go by, after it was made the default. Are you getting all of those fixes too? - Eric
