linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v9 6/6] block: loop: support DIO & AIO

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Message-ID: <20150807074342.GA30547@infradead.org>
Date:	Fri, 7 Aug 2015 00:43:42 -0700
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com>
Cc:	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@...cle.com>,
	Zach Brown <zab@...bo.net>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Maxim Patlasov <mpatlasov@...allels.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 6/6] block: loop: support DIO & AIO

I really disagree with the per-cmd use_dio tracking.

If we know at setup time that the loop device sector size is smaller
than the sector size of the underlying device we should never allow
dio, and othewise it should always work for data.

The ->transfer check also is one to be done at setup time, and there
is no need for draining or mode checking for an fsync - FLUSH is always
only guranteed to flush out I/O that has completed by the time it's
issued.
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