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SubjectRe: use O_DIRECT open file, when read will hang.
Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> wrote:
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> I am also seeing some kind of regression on raw in 2.6.0-test5-mm2.

What is "some kind of regression"?

> Unfortunately, this happens only with huge database benchmarks.
> I still haven't narrowed it down.

Use mm3 - it has fixes. Daniel McNeil reports that mm3 fixes the dbt2
problems he was seeing.

>
> - can I do fsx, rawiobench on NFS files to test DIO on NFS ?

Probably, but it will deadlock immediately.

All the i_sem and i_alloc_sem rework needs to be pushed down to the
blockdev_direct_IO level. That means reverting
O_DIRECT-race-fixes-fixes-2.patch first.


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