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Message-ID: <20160830072129.GA10997@infradead.org>
Date:   Tue, 30 Aug 2016 00:21:29 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-nvdimm@...1.01.org, Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@...rosoft.com>,
        Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/9] ext2: tell DAX the size of allocation holes

On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 08:57:41AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> It's been on my todo list.  The only reason why I haven't done it yet
> is because I knew you were working on a solution, and I didn't want to
> do things one way for buffered I/O, and a different way for Direct
> I/O, and disentangling the DIO code and the different assumptions of
> how different file systems interact with the DIO code is a *mess*.

It is.  I have an almost working iomap direct I/O implementation, which
simplifies a lot of this.  Partially because it expects sane locking
(a shared lock should be held over read, fortunately we now have i_rwsem
for that) and allows less opt-in/out behavior, and partially just
because we have so much better infrastructure now (iomap, bio chaining,
iov_iters, ...).

The iomap version is still work in progress, but I'm about to post
a cut down version for block devices which reduces I/O latency by
20%.

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