On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 03:49:25PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 11:50:20AM +1100, Nathan Scott wrote:
> > Something like this (works OK for me)...
>
> Yeah, that should work for now. But long-term we really need to redo
> direct I/O locking to have a common scheme for all filesystems. I've heard
> birds whistling RH patches yet another scheme into RHEL4 for GFS an it's
> definitly already far too complex now.
Yup, getting rid of the need for all these confusing locking
modes was one of the objectives in mind for DIO simplification.
(http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/suparna/DIO-simplify.txt)
Once we have an efficient range locking or similar mechanism in place
(Chris Mason is working on a patch), then it should be possible to push
out all of the i_mutex locking to higher level routines, outside of
direct-io.c.
Longer term, it would be nice to be able to rethink and further simplify
the whole _nolock equiv versions for VFS write methods. Especially the
percolation down to sync_page_range_nolock, etc.
Regards
Suparna
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