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From: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Direct I/O + Asynchronous I/O from kernel
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 10:14:24 -0400
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Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	David John Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com>
To: Rajat Sharma <fs.rajat@gmail.com>
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Rajat Sharma <fs.rajat@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Al,
>
> From a long time, I have been facing two issues in Linux kernel
> related to Direct I/O and Asynchronous I/O. Although so far I have
> managed to work around them, but I feel these could be easily fixed
> with a kernel patch. But before working out on a patch, I thought it
> is worthy to ask for an opinion about these two issues:

Dave Kleikamp has been working on resurrecting an old patchset from Zach
Brown:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/30/317

I think there may have been another posting since then.  Anyway, I think
Dave is due to send another soon.  Right Dave?  ;-)

-Jeff