From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: selective block polling and preadv2/pwritev2 revisited V2 Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2016 09:57:44 +0100 Message-ID: <20160227085744.GC4255@lst.de> References: <1456160876-14560-1-git-send-email-hch@lst.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Moyer Cc: Christoph Hellwig , viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, axboe@fb.com, milosz@adfin.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-api@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 04:18:55PM -0500, Jeff Moyer wrote: > Christoph Hellwig writes: > > > This series allows to selectively enable/disable polling for completions > > in the block layer on a per-I/O basis. For this it resurrects the > > preadv2/pwritev2 syscalls that Milosz prepared a while ago (and which > > are much simpler now due to VFS changes that happened in the meantime). > > That approach also had a man page update prepared, which I will resubmit > > with the current flags once this series makes it in. > > It would be helpful for reviewers if you submitted the man page at the > same time, in my opinion. Ok. > Do you have any plans on adding polling support to the buffered path? How would that even make sense?