linux-kernel - Re: Should implementations of ->direct

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Date:	Sun, 29 Mar 2015 12:13:17 +0300
From:	Boaz Harrosh <boaz@...xistor.com>
To:	Boaz Harrosh <boaz@...xistor.com>,
	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@...ux.intel.com>
CC:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@...el.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, msharbiani@...pensource.com
Subject: Re: Should implementations of ->direct_access be allowed to sleep?

On 03/29/2015 11:02 AM, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> On 03/26/2015 09:32 PM, Dave Chinner wrote:
<>
> I think that ->direct_access should not be any different then
> any other block-device access, ie allow to sleep.
> 

BTW: Matthew you yourself have said that after a page-load of memcpy
a user should call sched otherwise bad things will happen to the system
you even commented so on one of my patches when you thought I was
allowing a single memcpy bigger than a page.

So if the user *must* call sched after a call to ->direct_access that
is a "sleep" No?

Thanks
Boaz

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