Re: why does index in truncate_inode_pages_range() grows so much ?

["Toralf Förster" <toralf.foerster@gmx.de>]

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On 12/11/2013 09:26 PM, Jan Kara wrote:
> Thanks! So this works more or less as expected - trinity issued a
> read at absurdly high offset so we created pagecache page a that
> offset and tried to read data into it. That failed. We left the
> page in the pagecache where it was for reclaim to reclaim it when
> free pages are needed. Everything works as designed except we could
> possibly argue that it's not the most efficient way to use
> pages...
> 
> Patch 'vfs: fix a bug when we do some dio reads with append dio
> writes' (http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-fsdevel/msg70899.html)
> should actually change the situation and we won't unnecessarily
> cache these pages.
> 
confirmed - applied to latest git tree of Linus I helps.

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MfG/Sincerely
Toralf FA?rster
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