From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Zach Brown Subject: Re: [RFC 0/5] dio: clean up completion phase of direct_io_worker() Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 09:36:30 -0700 Message-ID: <44FEF90E.1050407@oracle.com> References: <20060905235732.29630.3950.sendpatchset@tetsuo.zabbo.net> <20060906073643.GA27784@in.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-aio@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]:29770 "EHLO agminet01.oracle.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751629AbWIFQgn (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Sep 2006 12:36:43 -0400 To: suparna@in.ibm.com In-Reply-To: <20060906073643.GA27784@in.ibm.com> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org > code more maintainable (I hope/wish we could also do something similar with > simplifying the locking as well). I agree, and that is definitely on my medium-term todo list. > Of course with this code, we have to await rigorous testing > ... and more reviews, but please consider this as my ack for the approach. Yeah, absolutely. Is there a chance that IBM can throw some testing cycles at it? I have it queued up for some moderately sized DB runs over here (FC arrays, cable pulling, that kind of thing.) - z