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

From: Josef Bacik
Date: Fri May 07 2010 - 09:41:09 EST


On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 10:55:37AM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> 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?
>

It just prevents them from overlapping areas. Thanks,

Josef
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