[parisc-linux] O_DIRECT on devices
Matthew Wilcox
willy@debian.org
Mon, 15 Jul 2002 15:10:13 +0100
On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 02:57:57PM +0100, Patrick Caulfield wrote:
> My machine isn't SMP but could a similar bug cause the problem to occur between
> the CPU and the DMA controller of the SCSI card ?
you're on a C110, right? that has a ccio IOC so you shouldn't have any
problems, unless there's a driver bug. and the symbios driver gets a
lot of testing ;-)
what we could be seeing on your machine is incoherency between user &
kernel space.
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