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Message-ID: <20150809134404.GA7190@infradead.org>
Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2015 06:44:04 -0700
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To: Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@...cle.com>,
Zach Brown <zab@...bo.net>,
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
On Sun, Aug 09, 2015 at 09:04:32AM -0400, Ming Lei wrote:
> Now the logical block size of loop is 512byte, but the sector size of
> backing device may be 4K, so we can't do 512 byte algined direct
> I/O to the filesystem in this situation.
>
> With runtime switch to buffered I/O we can fix this problem, but
> most of times it won't fall in this case.
The right way to handle this case is to not allow direct I/O at all,
you'll be constantly switching between direct and buffered I/O
otherwise, which is a bad idea.
> For non-512 byte sector size of backing device, it is needed as
> I described above.
If the backing device sector size is smaller than that of the loop
device you should not allow direct I/O as you will be switching forth
and back ue to the IO patterns all the time.
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