From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sedat Dilek Subject: Re: [PATCH V8 00/33] loop: Issue O_DIRECT aio using bio_vec Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 23:35:10 +0100 Message-ID: References: <1374774659-13121-1-git-send-email-dave.kleikamp@oracle.com> <54A4703B.2000006@oracle.com> Reply-To: sedat.dilek@gmail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: LKML , linux-fsdevel , Andrew Morton , "Maxim V. Patlasov" , Zach Brown , Ming Lei To: Dave Kleikamp Return-path: In-Reply-To: <54A4703B.2000006@oracle.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 10:52 PM, Dave Kleikamp wrote: > On 12/31/2014 02:38 PM, Sedat Dilek wrote: >> >> What has happened to that aio_loop patchset? >> Is it in Linux-next? >> ( /me started to play with "block: loop: convert to blk-mq (v3)", so I >> recalled this other improvement. ) > > It met with some harsh resistance, so I backed off on it. Then Al Viro > got busy re-writing the iov_iter infrastructure and I put my patchset on > the shelf to look at later. Then Ming Lei submitted more up-to-date > patchset: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/8/6/175 > > It looks like Ming is currently only pushing the first half of that > patchset. I don't know what his plans are for the last three patches: > > aio: add aio_kernel_() interface > fd/direct-io: introduce should_dirty for kernel aio > block: loop: support to submit I/O via kernel aio based > I tested with block-mq-v3 (for next-20141231) [1] and this looks promising [2]. Maybe Ming can say what the plan is with the missing parts. - Sedat - [1] http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=142003226701471&w=2 [2]http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=142006516408381&w=2