From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] direct IO support for loop driver Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 01:58:37 -0800 Message-ID: <20131121095837.GB18232@infradead.org> References: <528A648F.1030007@oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Dave Kleikamp , Christoph Hellwig , LKML , "linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" , "Maxim V. Patlasov" , linux-aio@kvack.org, Kent Overstreet , Jens Axboe To: Linus Torvalds Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-aio@kvack.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 01:19:33PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > I really don't see the point of all this crap. All this for the loop > driver? If so, it had better at least be prettier than it is. It's for anyone trying to to direct I/O from kernel space. I have patches that speed up ecryptfs and allow sane operation for the file backed scsi target based on this that have been collecting dust for a while. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-aio' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux AIO, see: http://www.kvack.org/aio/ Don't email: aart@kvack.org