[parisc-linux] O_DIRECT on devices

[Patrick Caulfield]

On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 03:10:13PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> 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 ;-)

yes.
 
> what we could be seeing on your machine is incoherency between user &
> kernel space.

ah OK. makes sense.

patrick