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Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 23:39:59 -0800
From: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
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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.