On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 03:30:15PM +0900, YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote:
> > 
> > Why would these reads be generated?  If the write has not completed, is
> > it not the case that the page must still be dirty, and should thus still
> > be in the cache?
> 
> because the page is marked as PG_BUSY during delayed write,
> VOP_GETPAGES will wait on it.  we have no way to hurry
> the i/o in this case.
> 
> maybe distinguishing PG_BUSY-for-read and PG_BUSY-for-write can be
> an alternative solution?

Won't this also help avoid reads, period, when the I/O queues get lots
of writes backed up in them?  That seems like a very good thing.

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