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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@scylladb.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>,
	Tomasz Grabiec <tgrabiec@scylladb.com>,
	linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: io_submit() blocks for writes for substantial amount of time
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 13:34:03 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170919203403.GA731@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <04cb3ee7-e7d5-6bba-6adb-8ac1c28e68dc@scylladb.com>

On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 07:31:04PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> For DIO, does it really need the mm_struct? It can just pin the pages and
> pass them to the workqueue function.

We can't pin all the pages for a huge I/O at the same time.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-09-19 20:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-19  8:50 io_submit() blocks for writes for substantial amount of time Tomasz Grabiec
2017-09-19 12:27 ` Brian Foster
2017-09-19 14:58   ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-09-19 16:31     ` Avi Kivity
2017-09-19 17:39       ` Brian Foster
2017-09-19 20:34         ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-09-20  6:17         ` Avi Kivity
2017-09-20 10:50           ` Brian Foster
2017-09-20 11:11             ` Avi Kivity
2017-09-20 14:49               ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-09-23 18:23                 ` Avi Kivity
2017-09-19 20:34       ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2017-09-20  6:14         ` Avi Kivity
2017-09-19 16:29   ` Avi Kivity
2017-09-19 17:38     ` Brian Foster
2017-09-19 17:53       ` Tomasz Grabiec
2017-09-19 23:38         ` Dave Chinner

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