Re: direct-IO writes strange behavior

[Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxx>]

hi Andrew,

On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 12:44:20AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Alberto Nava <beto@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I've done some more digging on this issue. The reason the
> >  request is going in 4k pages is that the direct-io code is
> >  giving up in do_direct_IO() and the request is issued as buffer IO :-(.
> 
> You seem to be using a -mm kernel.  It has extensive and not-quite-complete
> and not-really-tested-at-all-with-XFS direct-io changes.


Alberto's original mail said:

> I'm seeing a very strange behavior when I write to a file using 512k
> direct-io writes. The filesystem is XFS and the kernel is 2.6.0-test9.

cheers.

-- 
Nathan