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

From: Jamie Lokier
Date: Fri May 07 2010 - 05:55:44 EST


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?

Thanks,
-- Jamie
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