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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHSET] Add support for simplified async direct-io
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 08:03:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87823f67-a2ec-e959-1a23-9ecf3d6fe6d4@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <204d4a18-e5da-1806-433e-a3ff1b6ca575@kernel.dk>

On 11/17/2016 06:25 AM, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 11/17/2016 05:50 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 09:43:57PM -0700, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>> OK, I'm getting reasonably happy with it now:
>>>
>>> http://git.kernel.dk/cgit/linux-block/log/?h=for-4.10/hch-dio
>>>
>>> Sharing the FUA setting to avoid the manual flush between the two, and
>>> removing the remnants of SYNC support from __blkdev_direct_IO().
>>>
>>> I'll fire off some overnight testing now and leave it for the day.
>>
>> This looks reasonable, a couple questions and comments:
>>
>>  - why the 8 * BIO_MAX_PAGES in the call to iov_iter_npages,
>>    that probably needs a comment
>
> Looks like I forgot to push out the latest changes, that is gone. We're
> just using + 1 now to see if we should use the multibio function or not.

Just to clarify, the correct tip is:

commit 18eb8e94477813c190a2dfcd790c6707ab168377
Author: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Date:   Wed Nov 16 23:20:41 2016 -0700

     block: save 8 bytes of space in struct blkdev_dio

That's what I ran in my overnight testing, and it looks fine from my
end.

-- 
Jens Axboe

  reply	other threads:[~2016-11-17 15:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-14 17:28 [PATCHSET] Add support for simplified async direct-io Jens Axboe
2016-11-14 17:28 ` [PATCH 1/2] block: support any sized IO for simplified bdev direct-io Jens Axboe
2016-11-14 17:28 ` [PATCH 2/2] block: add support for async simple direct-io for bdevs Jens Axboe
2016-11-14 17:37 ` [PATCHSET] Add support for simplified async direct-io Christoph Hellwig
2016-11-14 17:47   ` Jens Axboe
2016-11-14 18:00     ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-11-14 18:02       ` Jens Axboe
2016-11-14 18:05         ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-11-14 18:08           ` Jens Axboe
2016-11-14 18:11             ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-11-14 18:17               ` Jens Axboe
2016-11-15 13:58                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-11-16 16:09               ` Jens Axboe
2016-11-16 16:31                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-11-16 16:57                   ` Jens Axboe
2016-11-16 17:16                     ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-11-16 20:02                       ` Jens Axboe
2016-11-16 20:36                         ` Jens Axboe
2016-11-16 20:51                           ` Jens Axboe
2016-11-17  3:44                             ` Jens Axboe
2016-11-17  4:43                         ` Jens Axboe
2016-11-17 12:50                           ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-11-17 13:25                             ` Jens Axboe
2016-11-17 15:03                               ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2016-11-17 15:16                                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-11-17 20:17                                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-11-17 20:30                                   ` Jens Axboe
2016-11-17 21:04                                     ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-11-17 21:06                                       ` Jens Axboe
2016-11-17 12:46                         ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-11-17 13:26                           ` Jens Axboe

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