Re: [Cluster-devel] [PATCH 06/32] sched: Add task_struct->faults_disabled_mapping

From: Kent Overstreet
Date: Thu May 25 2023 - 17:40:34 EST


On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 01:58:13AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 04:09:02AM -0400, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> > > Well, it seems like you are talking about something else than the
> > > existing cases in gfs2 and btrfs, that is you want full consistency
> > > between direct I/O and buffered I/O. That's something nothing in the
> > > kernel has ever provided, so I'd be curious why you think you need it
> > > and want different semantics from everyone else?
> >
> > Because I like code that is correct.
>
> Well, start with explaining your definition of correctness, why everyone
> else is "not correct", an how you can help fixing this correctness
> problem in the existing kernel. Thanks for your cooperation!

BTW, if you wanted a more serious answer, just asking for the commit
message to be expanded would be a better way to ask...