From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265367AbUABHpy (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jan 2004 02:45:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265422AbUABHpy (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jan 2004 02:45:54 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:40581 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265367AbUABHpx (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jan 2004 02:45:53 -0500 Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2004 23:46:34 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: suparna@in.ibm.com Cc: daniel@osdl.org, janetmor@us.ibm.com, pbadari@us.ibm.com, linux-aio@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH linux-2.6.1-rc1-mm1] aiodio_fallback_bio_count.patch Message-Id: <20040101234634.53b69a3b.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20040102051422.GB3311@in.ibm.com> References: <20031231015913.34fc0176.akpm@osdl.org> <20031231100949.GA4099@in.ibm.com> <20031231021042.5975de04.akpm@osdl.org> <20031231104801.GB4099@in.ibm.com> <20031231025309.6bc8ca20.akpm@osdl.org> <20031231025410.699a3317.akpm@osdl.org> <20031231031736.0416808f.akpm@osdl.org> <1072910061.712.67.camel@ibm-c.pdx.osdl.net> <1072910475.712.74.camel@ibm-c.pdx.osdl.net> <20031231154648.2af81331.akpm@osdl.org> <20040102051422.GB3311@in.ibm.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Suparna Bhattacharya wrote: > > Does the following sound better as complete description ? It does, thanks. But it does not shed a lot of light on the filemap.c changes - what's going on there? What is the significance of `written > count' in there, and of `dio->result > dio->size' in finished_one_bio()? How can these states come about?