Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Nov 2013 15:24:53 +1100 | From | Stephen Rothwell <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] direct IO support for loop driver |
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Hi all,
On Wed, 20 Nov 2013 16:46:38 -0600 Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@oracle.com> wrote: > > Yeah, I'll work on something cleaner. The vital piece is some container > that can either contain an iovec or or an array of kernel pages to be > passed to the filesystems. The iov_iter structure was a reasonable > choice, but the implementation is a bit sloppy. Kent wants to pass the > bio structure itself, while this patchset used the biovec array. As long > as I'm reworking the patchset, I'll see if I can accommodate his > requirements.
So given this rework, I think I should drop the aio-direct tree from linux-next for now. We can add it back (hopefully with a better name) when the rewrite is in a reasonable state.
-- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell sfr@canb.auug.org.au [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |