linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] direct IO support for loop driver

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Message-Id: <20131121152453.056a6417df2f342d898864ad@canb.auug.org.au>
Date:	Thu, 21 Nov 2013 15:24:53 +1100
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@...cle.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Maxim V. Patlasov" <mpatlasov@...allels.com>, linux-aio@...ck.org,
	Kent Overstreet <kmo@...erainc.com>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] direct IO support for loop driver

Hi all,

On Wed, 20 Nov 2013 16:46:38 -0600 Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@...cle.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@...b.auug.org.au

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