From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Daniel Ehrenberg <dehrenberg@google.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Approaches to making io_submit not block
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 13:39:02 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110901033902.GN32358@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110831052627.GA5338@infradead.org>
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 01:26:27AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 02:51:01PM -0700, Daniel Ehrenberg wrote:
> > > Let filesystems handle this. ?I've actually prototyped it in XFS,
> > > based on some pending work from Dave but at this point it's still butt
> > > ugly.
> >
> > Great, would you be willing to let me see the draft code?
> >
> > Are you sure that there wouldn't be any benefit to having the code be
> > in the aio/dio levels in terms of making it easier for file
> > systems/reducing code duplication?
>
> I'll get it polished up and send it out for RFC once Dave sends out
> the updated allocation workqueue patch. With this he moves all
> allocator calls in XFS into a workqueue. My direct I/O patch uses that
> fact to use that workqueue for the allocator call and let the existing
> aio retry infrastructure retry the direct I/O operation one that
> workqueue has finished.
I thought you didn't like that code, Christoph. ;)
I'll resend it soon.
Cheers,
Dave.
--
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-01 3:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-29 17:33 Approaches to making io_submit not block Daniel Ehrenberg
2011-08-30 5:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-30 21:51 ` Daniel Ehrenberg
2011-08-31 5:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-31 17:08 ` Andi Kleen
2011-08-31 21:00 ` Daniel Ehrenberg
2011-08-31 21:15 ` Andi Kleen
2011-09-01 4:18 ` Dave Chinner
2011-09-01 4:39 ` Andi Kleen
2011-09-01 6:54 ` Dave Chinner
2011-09-02 13:08 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-09-02 13:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-01 3:39 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2011-09-01 4:20 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-30 7:02 ` Andi Kleen
[not found] ` <CAAK6Zt0Sh1GdEOb-tNf2FGXJs=e1Jbcqew13R_GdTqrv6vW97w@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <x49k49uk2ox.fsf@segfault.boston.devel.redhat.com>
[not found] ` <4E5D5817.6040704@kernel.dk>
2011-08-30 22:19 ` Daniel Ehrenberg
2011-08-30 22:32 ` Jens Axboe
2011-08-30 22:41 ` Andrew Morton
2011-08-30 22:45 ` Daniel Ehrenberg
2011-08-30 22:54 ` Andrew Morton
2011-08-30 23:03 ` Jeremy Allison
2011-08-30 23:11 ` Andrew Morton
2011-08-31 11:04 ` Ulrich Drepper
2011-08-31 16:59 ` Jeremy Allison
2011-09-01 11:14 ` Ulrich Drepper
2011-09-01 15:58 ` Jeremy Allison
2011-09-01 16:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-01 16:15 ` Jeremy Allison
2011-09-01 16:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-01 16:31 ` Jeremy Allison
2011-09-01 16:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-01 16:34 ` Jeremy Allison
2011-09-01 16:45 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-01 16:57 ` Jeremy Allison
2011-08-31 5:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-31 6:04 ` guy keren
2011-08-31 23:16 ` Daniel Ehrenberg
2011-08-31 23:48 ` guy keren
2011-08-31 23:59 ` Daniel Ehrenberg
2011-08-31 15:45 ` Gleb Natapov
2011-08-31 16:02 ` Avi Kivity
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