Am 19.05.2010 20:53, schrieb Christoph Hellwig:
> The difference between the start sectors of two requests can be larger
> than the size of the "int" type, which can lead to a not correctly
> sorted multiwrite array and thus spurious I/O errors and filesystem
> corruption due to incorrect request m
On 05/20/2010 11:19 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
Am 20.05.2010 08:09, schrieb Avi Kivity:
On 05/20/2010 12:09 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
Actually it's not that obvious. If the actual problem
here (besides the mis-comparison) is due to missing
barriers or flushes. Avi asked a good questi
Am 20.05.2010 08:09, schrieb Avi Kivity:
> On 05/20/2010 12:09 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
>>
>>> Actually it's not that obvious. If the actual problem
>>> here (besides the mis-comparison) is due to missing
>>> barriers or flushes. Avi asked a good question in that
>>> thread.
>>>
>> It's obviou
On 05/20/2010 12:09 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
Actually it's not that obvious. If the actual problem
here (besides the mis-comparison) is due to missing
barriers or flushes. Avi asked a good question in that
thread.
It's obvious that it's a hack. It doesn't fix anything, it just disables a
Am Mittwoch, 19. Mai 2010 21:42 schrieb Michael Tokarev:
> 19.05.2010 23:38, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 11:26:58PM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> >> Now the question is if the previous patch by Avi is actually
> >> worth to apply -- I mean this one:
> >> [Qemu-devel] [P
19.05.2010 23:38, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 11:26:58PM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote:
Now the question is if the previous patch by Avi is actually
worth to apply -- I mean this one:
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH +stable] block: don't attempt to merge overlapping
requests
No, th
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 11:26:58PM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> Now the question is if the previous patch by Avi is actually
> worth to apply -- I mean this one:
> [Qemu-devel] [PATCH +stable] block: don't attempt to merge overlapping
> requests
No, that was just a hack, it shouldn't be appl
19.05.2010 22:53, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
The difference between the start sectors of two requests can be larger
than the size of the "int" type, which can lead to a not correctly
sorted multiwrite array and thus spurious I/O errors and filesystem
corruption due to incorrect request merges.
So
