Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 05 Nov 2002 17:10:56 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] 2.5.46 AIO support for raw/O_DIRECT |
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Badari Pulavarty wrote: > > Hi, > > Here is (part 1/2) 2.5.46 patch to support AIO for raw/O_DIRECT. > > This patch adds the infrastructure only. It does not make > DIO code Async. (part 2/2 does). Here is summary of what this > patch does: > > 1) Adds generic_file_aio_write_nolock() and makes all other > generic_file_*_write() to use it. > > 2) Modifies generic_file_direct_IO() and ->direct_IO() functions > to take "kiocb *" instead of "file *". > > 3) Renames generic_direct_IO() to blockdev_direct_IO(). > (Andrew's suggestion) > > 4) Moves generic_file_direct_IO() to mm/filemap.c > (Andrew's suggestion) > > 5) Adds AIO read/write support for raw driver. >
Looks sane. Did nfs_direct_IO() not need updating? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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