[RFC, PATCH 0/3] serialise concurrent direct IO sub-block zeroing

[Dave Chinner]

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 02:20:07PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Dave Chinner wrote:
> > Patches for discussion seeing as git.kernel.org is being slow to update.
> > 
> 
> I can confirm that this fixes the qemu problems, too.
> 
> Also makes the install take about 30min vs. 10 ;)

Yeah, that's no surprise - it'll be serialising all the IO even when
it doesn't need to. Good to know that we've found the cause of the
problem, though, so we can work from here towards a more robust
solution.

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
david at fromorbit.com