Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Oct 2006 23:00:42 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [patch 2/5] mm: fault vs invalidate/truncate race fix |
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On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:39:22 +1000 Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> But I see that it does read twice. Do you want that behaviour retained? It > seems like at this level it would be logical to read it once and let lower > layers take care of any retries?
argh. Linus has good-sounding reasons for retrying the pagefault-path's read a single time, but I forget what they are. Something to do with networked filesystems? (adds cc) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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