From: "Matt D. Robinson" <yakker@alacritech.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: direct-to-BIO for O_DIRECT
Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 08:03:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D29A9BC.266EC55E@alacritech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: p73adp2wugy.fsf@oldwotan.suse.de
Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au> writes:
>
> > drivers/md/lvm-snap.c
> > drivers/media/video/video-buf.c
> > drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c
> > drivers/scsi/sg.c
> >
> > the video and mtd drivers seems to be fairly easy to de-kiobufize.
> > I'm aware of one proprietary driver which uses kiobufs. XFS uses
> > kiobufs a little bit - just to map the pages.
>
> lkcd uses it too for its kernel crash dump. I suspect it wouldn't be that
> hard to change.
>
We can remove their use from our 2.5 tree. Not a problem, as
there are other ways to accomplish what we want.
> -Andi
--Matt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-08 15:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2002-07-08 7:26 ` direct-to-BIO for O_DIRECT Andi Kleen
2002-07-08 9:19 ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2002-07-08 15:03 ` Matt D. Robinson [this message]
2002-07-11 6:09 Adam J. Richter
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2002-07-09 3:57 Douglas Gilbert
2002-07-09 4:26 ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-09 8:16 ` Ingo Oeser
2002-07-11 17:28 ` Ingo Oeser
2002-07-11 20:43 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-07-08 3:19 Andrew Morton
2002-07-08 3:30 ` Lincoln Dale
2002-07-08 7:44 ` Ingo Oeser
2002-07-11 2:25 ` Lincoln Dale
2002-07-11 3:24 ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-11 3:25 ` Lincoln Dale
2002-07-11 19:52 ` Jesse Barnes
2002-07-11 23:40 ` Lincoln Dale
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