| Subject | Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.4 105/330] ext4: make dioread_nolock the default | From | Ritesh Harjani <> | Date | Fri, 18 Sep 2020 19:35:17 +0530 |
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Hello Sasha,
On 9/18/20 7:27 AM, Sasha Levin wrote: > From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> > > [ Upstream commit 244adf6426ee31a83f397b700d964cff12a247d3 ] > > This fixes the direct I/O versus writeback race which can reveal stale > data, and it improves the tail latency of commits on slow devices. > > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200125022254.1101588-1-tytso@mit.edu > Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
I see that the subjected patch is being taken into many different stable trees. I remember there was a fixes patch on top of this[1]. Below thread[1] has more details. Just wanted to point this one out. Please ignore if already taken.
[1]: https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-ext4/msg72219.html
-ritesh
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