From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Matt Klein <matt.klein@pikewerks.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Cached IO Synchronization Question
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 13:56:27 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200904091356.27466.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49DCC936.70509@pikewerks.com>
On Thursday 09 April 2009 01:56:38 Matt Klein wrote:
> >
> > Note how do_generic_file_read() checks PageUptodate() and does a
> > lock_page_killable() in case its not.
> >
> >
> >
>
> As far as I can tell there is nothing to prevent the page from becoming
> out of date (or someone doing a full page cached write) after the
> PageUptodate() check returns up to date.
Anything which marks the page not uptodate does not change the actual
page data, so the copy will still copy over valid data.
There is otherwise no synchronisation between reads and writes.
All we care about is that the data has been valid at some point in
time.
> So I have concluded that cached read/write interleaving is not
> synchronized. This is the behavior found on Windows.
Right.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-06 21:31 Matt Klein
2009-04-08 15:23 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-04-08 15:56 ` Matt Klein
2009-04-09 3:56 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
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