From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262959AbVFXQL6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Jun 2005 12:11:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262256AbVFXQL5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Jun 2005 12:11:57 -0400 Received: from dp.samba.org ([66.70.73.150]:25016 "EHLO lists.samba.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263115AbVFXQK1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Jun 2005 12:10:27 -0400 Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 09:10:21 -0700 From: Jeremy Allison To: Suparna Bhattacharya Cc: linux-aio@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bcrl@kvack.org, wli@holomorphy.com, zab@zabbo.net, mason@suse.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Buffered filesystem AIO read/write Message-ID: <20050624161021.GA25059@jeremy2> Reply-To: Jeremy Allison References: <20050620120154.GA4810@in.ibm.com> <20050624104928.GA4408@in.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20050624104928.GA4408@in.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.