linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] Btrfs: add basic DIO read support

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Date:	Fri, 7 May 2010 09:40:37 -0400
From:	Josef Bacik <josef@...hat.com>
To:	Jamie Lokier <jamie@...reable.org>
Cc:	Josef Bacik <josef@...hat.com>, linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] Btrfs: add basic DIO read support

On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 10:55:37AM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Josef Bacik wrote:
> > 3) Lock the entire range during DIO.  I originally had it so we would lock the
> > extents as get_block was called, and then unlock them as the endio function was
> > called, which worked great, but if we ever had an error in the submit_io hook,
> > we could have locked an extent that would never be submitted for IO, so we
> > wouldn't be able to unlock it, so this solution fixed that problem and made it a
> > bit cleaner.
> 
> Does this prevent concurrent DIOs to overlapping or nearby ranges?
> 

It just prevents them from overlapping areas.  Thanks,

Josef
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