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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0710261541410.30120@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:42:40 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Zach Brown <zach.brown@...cle.com>
cc: Karl Schendel <kschendel@...allegro.com>,
Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@...ck.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>,
Leonid Ananiev <leonid.i.ananiev@...ux.intel.com>,
Chris Mason <chris.mason@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix bad data from non-direct-io read after direct-io
write
On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Zach Brown wrote:
>
> I think that test should be changed to
How about not testing at all? Which was what the old code did.
Just do the invalidate unconditionally for any writes, and screw the end
result of the invalidate, since we cannot afford to overwrite the previous
return value anyway in any realistic scenario?
Linus
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