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From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
To: Dongsheng Yang <yangds.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>,
	Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>,
	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ubifs: Allow O_DIRECT
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 14:31:40 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1440070300.31419.202.camel@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55D542C5.6040500@cn.fujitsu.com>

On Thu, 2015-08-20 at 11:00 +0800, Dongsheng Yang wrote:
> On 08/20/2015 04:35 AM, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> > Currently UBIFS does not support direct IO, but some applications
> > blindly use the O_DIRECT flag.
> > Instead of failing upon open() we can do better and fall back
> > to buffered IO.
> 
> Hmmmm, to be honest, I am not sure we have to do it as Dave
> suggested. I think that's just a work-around for current fstests.
> 
> IMHO, perform a buffered IO when user request direct IO without
> any warning sounds not a good idea. Maybe adding a warning would
> make it better.
> 
> I think we need more discussion about AIO&DIO in ubifs, and actually
> I have a plan for it. But I have not listed the all cons and pros of
> it so far.
> 
> Artem, what's your opinion?

Yes, this is my worry too.

Basically, we need to see what is the "common practice" here, and
follow it. This requires a small research. What would be the most
popular Linux FS which does not support direct I/O? Can we check what
it does?

Artem.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-08-20 11:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-19 20:35 [PATCH 1/2] ubifs: Remove dead xattr code Richard Weinberger
2015-08-19 20:35 ` [PATCH 2/2] ubifs: Allow O_DIRECT Richard Weinberger
2015-08-20  3:00   ` Dongsheng Yang
2015-08-20  6:42     ` Richard Weinberger
2015-08-20  7:14       ` Dongsheng Yang
2015-08-20 11:31     ` Artem Bityutskiy [this message]
2015-08-20 11:40       ` Richard Weinberger
2015-08-20 12:34         ` Artem Bityutskiy
2015-08-24  7:18           ` Artem Bityutskiy
2015-08-24  7:17             ` Dongsheng Yang
2015-08-24  7:20               ` Dongsheng Yang
2015-08-24  8:06               ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-08-20 20:49         ` Brian Norris
2015-08-24  7:13           ` Artem Bityutskiy
2015-08-24  7:53             ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-08-24  8:02               ` Artem Bityutskiy
2015-08-24  8:03                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-08-24  8:00                   ` Dongsheng Yang
2015-08-24  9:34                   ` Artem Bityutskiy
2015-08-24  9:35                     ` Richard Weinberger
2015-08-24 16:18             ` Brian Norris
2015-08-24 17:19               ` Jeff Moyer
2015-08-24 23:46                 ` Dave Chinner
2015-08-25  1:28                   ` Chris Mason
2015-08-25 15:48                     ` Artem Bityutskiy
2015-08-25 14:00                   ` Jeff Moyer
2015-08-25 14:13                     ` Chris Mason
2015-08-25 14:18                       ` Jeff Moyer
2015-08-20 11:29   ` Artem Bityutskiy
2015-08-20  2:48 ` [PATCH 1/2] ubifs: Remove dead xattr code Dongsheng Yang
2015-08-20  6:42   ` Artem Bityutskiy
2015-08-20  6:45   ` Richard Weinberger
2015-08-26 14:15   ` Josh Cartwright
2015-08-27  1:00     ` Dongsheng Yang

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