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2010 Sep 02
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[patch] O_DIRECT: fix the splitting up of contiguous I/O
Andrew, can you please send this on to Linus and -stable ASAP? It's
causing massive problems for our users.
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 04:50:59PM -0400, Jeff Moyer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> commit c2c6ca4 (direct-io: do not merge logically non-contiguous
> requests) introduced a bug whereby all O_DIRECT I/Os were submitted a
> page at a time to the block layer. The problem is that the code
> expected dio->block_in_file to correspond to the current page in the
> dio. In fact, it corr...