linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 00/09] Implement direct user I/O interfaces for RDMA

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Date:   Thu, 17 May 2018 23:44:00 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Long Li <longli@...rosoft.com>
Cc:     Tom Talpey <tom@...pey.com>, Steve French <sfrench@...ba.org>,
        "linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org" <linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org>,
        "samba-technical@...ts.samba.org" <samba-technical@...ts.samba.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org" <linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/09] Implement direct user I/O interfaces for RDMA

On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 06:03:09AM +0000, Long Li wrote:
> I also want to point out that, I choose to implement .read_iter and .write_iter from file_operations to implement direct I/O (CIFS is already doing this for O_DIRECT, so following this code path will avoid a big mess up).  The ideal choice is to implement .direct_IO from address_space_operations that I think eventually we want to move to.

No, the direct_IO address space operation is the mess.  We're moving
away from it.