From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the block tree with the tree Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 23:44:45 -0800 Message-ID: <20131108074445.GA11595@infradead.org> References: <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> <20131108073959.GA17807@kmo-pixel> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.9]:56524 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751078Ab3KHHou (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Nov 2013 02:44:50 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20131108073959.GA17807@kmo-pixel> Sender: linux-next-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Kent Overstreet 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 11:39:59PM -0800, Kent Overstreet wrote: > 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. >>From me alone: Support for ecryptfs to not double cache. AIO support for target_core_file. To replace code in staging: Removal of the lustre-specific loop driver. And I remember others claiming to want to submit bits, too.