From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Andrey Kuzmin <andrey.v.kuzmin@gmail.com>
Cc: "fio@vger.kernel.org" <fio@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Let I/O engine provide methods to allocate/free I/O memory.
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 14:57:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56CCD5D1.3020508@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANvN+e=-VtHTeaRftjvPJUjhgVY9nD85gn=6D4+TyQeLrEE_cw@mail.gmail.com>
On 02/23/2016 02:16 PM, Andrey Kuzmin wrote:
> I/O engine may have special needs as to how the I/O memory should be
> allocated. The below patch adds respective methods to the I/O engine
> interface.
What kind of special needs? It's not that I mind adding an IO engine
alloc hook, the only issue is that it potentially voids the various job
file settings for memory backing etc without the user knowing it. So I
think we need some decent justification here, other than "special needs" :-)
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-23 21:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-23 21:16 [PATCH]: Let I/O engine provide methods to allocate/free I/O memory Andrey Kuzmin
2016-02-23 21:57 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2016-02-23 22:02 ` Andrey Kuzmin
2016-02-23 22:04 ` Jens Axboe
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