Re: [PATCH 0/2] Buffered filesystem AIO read/write

Jeremy Allison
2005-06-24T16:11:58Z

On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 04:19:28PM +0530, Suparna Bhattacharya wrote:
>
> Feedback on (1) seems positive so far, so now moving to (2), here are
> the patches that implement the changes to make filesystem AIO read
> and write truly asynchronous even without O_DIRECT. With these patches
> in place it will no longer be necessary for the POSIX AIO library
> (from Sébastien et al) to force O_DIRECT and memcpy for alignment.
> (Samba should find this useful)

Wonderful ! That's exactly what we need - thanks. I could have fixed this
in userspace but it would be rather ugly.

Jeremy.