From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: from mail-ig0-f173.google.com ([209.85.213.173]:32984 "EHLO mail-ig0-f173.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753326AbbKGAk2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Nov 2015 19:40:28 -0500 Received: by igvi2 with SMTP id i2so44304673igv.0 for ; Fri, 06 Nov 2015 16:40:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (27.34.213.162.lcy-01.canonistack.canonical.com. [162.213.34.27]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id kb7sm662930igb.11.2015.11.06.16.40.26 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Fri, 06 Nov 2015 16:40:27 -0800 (PST) From: Ming Lei To: util-linux@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH 0/2] losetup: support direct-IO to backing file Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2015 08:40:16 +0800 Message-Id: <1446856818-26532-1-git-send-email-tom.leiming@gmail.com> Sender: util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi, The loop direct I/O patches[1] have been merged to linus kernel tree and will be released in v4.4. So the two patches provide interfaces for using direct IO/AIO in losetup. include/loopdev.h | 4 ++++ lib/loopdev.c | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ sys-utils/losetup.c | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- 3 files changed, 71 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) [1] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=bc07c10a3603a5ab3ef01ba42b3d41f9ac63d1b6 Thanks, Ming