Messages in this thread | | | From | Badari Pulavarty <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] 2.5.46 AIO support for raw/O_DIRECT | Date | Tue, 5 Nov 2002 17:17:25 -0800 (PST) |
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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?
Comment in nfs_direct_IO() says it is broken and it fails to compile. So I did not update it. May be I should ..
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