From: Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@oracle.com>
To: Zach Brown <zab@zabbo.net>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 18/22] ext3: add support for .read_iter and .write_iter
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 17:14:14 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F4C0E46.9090000@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F4C04EE.7080306@zabbo.net>
On 02/27/2012 04:34 PM, Zach Brown wrote:
>
>> drivers/block/loop.c | 55 ++++++++++++++++++-
>> fs/ext3/file.c | 2 +
>> fs/ext3/inode.c | 149
>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
>> include/linux/loop.h | 1 +
>> 4 files changed, 160 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-)
>
> It looks like the patch that teaches loop to use the kernel aio
> interface got combined with the patch that adds the _bvec entry points
> to ext3.
Okay, looking back, your patchset had them separate. This was my error.
I'll separate them again.
>> + if (file->f_op->write_iter&& file->f_op->read_iter) {
>> + file->f_flags |= O_DIRECT;
>> + lo_flags |= LO_FLAGS_USE_AIO;
>> + }
>
> This manual setting of f_flags still looks very fishy to me. I remember
> finding that pattern somewhere else but that's not very comforting :).
>
> - z
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-27 23:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-27 21:19 [RFC PATCH 00/22] loop: Issue O_DIRECT aio with pages Dave Kleikamp
2012-02-27 21:19 ` [RFC PATCH 01/22] iov_iter: move into its own file Dave Kleikamp
2012-03-01 20:25 ` Jeff Moyer
2012-02-27 21:19 ` [RFC PATCH 02/22] iov_iter: add copy_to_user support Dave Kleikamp
2012-02-27 21:19 ` [RFC PATCH 03/22] fuse: convert fuse to use iov_iter_copy_[to|from]_user Dave Kleikamp
[not found] ` <1330377576-3659-4-git-send-email-dave.kleikamp-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2012-02-28 9:09 ` Miklos Szeredi
2012-02-27 21:19 ` [RFC PATCH 04/22] iov_iter: hide iovec details behind ops function pointers Dave Kleikamp
2012-02-27 21:19 ` [RFC PATCH 05/22] iov_iter: add bvec support Dave Kleikamp
2012-02-27 21:19 ` [RFC PATCH 06/22] iov_iter: add a shorten call Dave Kleikamp
2012-02-27 21:19 ` [RFC PATCH 07/22] iov_iter: let callers extract iovecs and bio_vecs Dave Kleikamp
2012-02-27 21:19 ` [RFC PATCH 08/22] dio: create a dio_aligned() helper function Dave Kleikamp
2012-02-27 21:19 ` [RFC PATCH 09/22] dio: add dio_alloc_init() " Dave Kleikamp
2012-02-27 21:19 ` [RFC PATCH 10/22] dio: add sdio_init() " Dave Kleikamp
2012-02-27 21:19 ` [RFC PATCH 11/22] dio: add dio_lock_and_flush() helper Dave Kleikamp
2012-02-27 21:19 ` [RFC PATCH 12/22] dio: add dio_post_submission() helper function Dave Kleikamp
2012-02-27 21:19 ` [RFC PATCH 13/22] dio: add __blockdev_direct_IO_bdev() Dave Kleikamp
2012-02-27 22:16 ` Zach Brown
2012-02-27 21:19 ` [RFC PATCH 14/22] fs: pull iov_iter use higher up the stack Dave Kleikamp
2012-02-27 21:19 ` [RFC PATCH 15/22] aio: add aio_kernel_() interface Dave Kleikamp
2012-02-27 21:19 ` [RFC PATCH 16/22] aio: add aio support for iov_iter arguments Dave Kleikamp
2012-02-27 22:13 ` Zach Brown
2012-02-27 21:19 ` [RFC PATCH 17/22] bio: add bvec_length(), like iov_length() Dave Kleikamp
2012-02-27 21:19 ` [RFC PATCH 18/22] ext3: add support for .read_iter and .write_iter Dave Kleikamp
2012-02-27 22:34 ` Zach Brown
2012-02-27 23:14 ` Dave Kleikamp [this message]
2012-02-27 21:19 ` [RFC PATCH 19/22] ocfs2: add support for read_iter, write_iter, and direct_IO_bvec Dave Kleikamp
2012-02-27 21:19 ` [RFC PATCH 20/22] ext4: " Dave Kleikamp
2012-02-27 21:19 ` [RFC PATCH 21/22] btrfs: " Dave Kleikamp
2012-02-27 21:19 ` [RFC PATCH 22/22] nfs: add support for read_iter, write_iter Dave Kleikamp
[not found] ` <1330377576-3659-23-git-send-email-dave.kleikamp-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2012-02-27 22:08 ` Myklebust, Trond
2012-02-27 23:17 ` Dave Kleikamp
2012-02-27 22:27 ` [RFC PATCH 00/22] loop: Issue O_DIRECT aio with pages Zach Brown
2012-02-27 22:53 ` Dave Kleikamp
2012-02-28 9:29 ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-02-28 15:14 ` Zach Brown
2012-02-29 9:08 ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-03-01 20:33 ` Jeff Moyer
2012-03-01 20:36 ` Dave Kleikamp
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