Re: [GIT PULL] Please pull NFS client bugfixes....

From: Trond Myklebust
Date: Thu Jan 07 2010 - 20:26:57 EST


On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 20:22 -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> All I want to ensure is that people who use non-posix-lock based
> synchronisation can set the 'noac' flag, and be assured that if mmap()
> is called _after_ they have grabbed their lock, then the page cache will
> be duly revalidated (under the lock), and the fresh data will be made
> available.

BTW: This is the same guarantee that we offer in the case of standard
read() (and write()) when 'noac' is set.
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