Hi Folks, These two patches have been sitting in my tree for some time. I think I've even posted them before. Basically, XFS can deadlock when you use splice and direct IO on the same file concurrently because the splice write inverts the locking order of the i_mutex and the xfs inode i_iolock. The first patch moves the guts of the i_mutex protected region of the splice write to an actor function, and the second uses this structure to enable XFS to provide an actor that uses the correct locking order and hence avoid the deadlock. Comments? Cheers, Dave. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
