Re: [PATCH v5 0/8] make statx() return DIO alignment information

Eric Biggers
2022-09-06T22:08:56Z

On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 11:58:43PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> This patchset makes the statx() system call return direct I/O (DIO)
> alignment information. This allows userspace to easily determine
> whether a file supports DIO, and if so with what alignment restrictions.

Al, any thoughts on this patchset, and do you plan to apply it for 6.1? Ideally
this would go through the VFS tree. If not, I suppose I'll need to have it
added to linux-next and send the pull request myself.

- Eric