From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kent Overstreet Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the block tree with the tree Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 23:39:59 -0800 Message-ID: <20131108073959.GA17807@kmo-pixel> References: <527411DD.7050008@oracle.com> <527414DE.9090704@kernel.dk> <52756583.2030808@oracle.com> <527BE7FA.90904@oracle.com> <20131107192545.GA20624@moria.home.lan> <527C2AA9.9040608@oracle.com> <20131108125307.613427c04a7527c4359e6443@canb.auug.org.au> <20131108020805.GI3842@kmo> <527C4D35.8000907@oracle.com> <20131108073324.GA31662@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mail-pa0-f49.google.com ([209.85.220.49]:37077 "EHLO mail-pa0-f49.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751444Ab3KHHjp (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Nov 2013 02:39:45 -0500 Received: by mail-pa0-f49.google.com with SMTP id lj1so1829707pab.36 for ; Thu, 07 Nov 2013 23:39:45 -0800 (PST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20131108073324.GA31662@infradead.org> Sender: linux-next-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Dave Kleikamp , Stephen Rothwell , Jens Axboe , linux-next@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Zach Brown , Olof Johansson , Andrew Morton On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 11:33:24PM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > The changes for direct I/O from kernel space have been in for a long > time, and they are blocking multiple consumers of the interface from > getting submitted for about a year now. Even if the guts of the > direct-io code will get a write based on another patchset from Kent > that will go on top of the immutable iovec changes we need the > interfaces now and not another year down the road. What else is blocked on this patch series? Honest question.