Hi James,
Thanks for the detailed analysis!
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 03:39:44PM -0500, James Foris wrote:
> ...
> Does anyone know what has changed ? And is there anything that can be cone
> to make the current kernels
> behave better ?
Looking back through the changes in XFS I can't see anything
that might explain this.
There were four changes to fs/direct-io.c between 2.6.5 and 2.6.6,
I wonder if you could back these out one by one, re-running your
test on XFS without each one, and see if its one of those changes
(if you use bitkeeper, you can see and extract those individual
changes - probably the easiest way to do this).
Let me know which it is, if any; that'll give me a good starting
point to track it down. If its not those, we'll try another tack.
thanks!
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Nathan
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