Re: [LSF/MM TOPIC][ATTEND] protection information and userspace

[Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>]

On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 04:04:36PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 09:36:39AM -0800, Joel Becker wrote:
> > Dear LSF committee,
> > 	I'd like to explicitly request attendance for this discussion
> > :-)
> 
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=135894412908342&w=2
> 
> 	"Also, the way I compile the list of requests is from thread
> 	heads ...  that means don't send your attendee request as a
> 	reply to something else either otherwise it might get missed."

Ack.  Send as such.

Thanks,
Joel

> 
> --b.
> 
> > 
> > Joel
> > 
> > On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 09:27:35AM -0800, Zach Brown wrote:
> > > On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 11:19:59AM -0500, Jeff Moyer wrote:
> > > > Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com> writes:
> > > > >> 
> > > > >> For aio we just need to add additional fields to an existing structure.
> > > > >> 
> > > > >> So yeah, I'd be interested in that discussion as well.
> > > > 
> > > > Sure, it's easy to start there, but then you eventually end up having to
> > > > add a non-aio interface as well.  Let's not take the latter off the
> > > > table.
> > > 
> > > I agree that a sync variant should't be ignored, but needing a sync
> > > interface with PI arguments also shouldn't get in the way of adding
> > > support to the aio+dio path.  Simply because it's what people use :/.
> > > 
> > > > I'm not sure how that's directly related to aio, but ok.  If we're going
> > > > to rewrite the aio code, I think Zach's acall would be a good start, at
> > > > least on the API front:
> > > >   http://lwn.net/Articles/316806/
> > > 
> > > Yeah, I'm happy to chat about this stuff if people are interested.  I
> > > think I'd do things differently today than what was done in that aged
> > > acall prototype.
> > > 
> > > - z
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