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From: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>,
	Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Vectorize aio_read/aio_write methods
Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 14:10:10 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43E52642.9040104@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060204132838.GA29549@infradead.org>

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>  	do {
> -		ret = file->f_op->aio_read(iocb, iocb->ki_buf,
> -			iocb->ki_left, iocb->ki_pos);
> +		struct iovec iov = {
> +			.iov_base = iocb->ki_buf,
> +			.iov_len = iocb->ki_left
> +		};
> +
> +		ret = file->f_op->aio_read(iocb, &iov, 1, iocb->ki_pos);
> 
> this still has the lifetime problems Ben pointed out.  aio might still
> be outstanding when this thread returned to userspace, so we need to
> dynamically allocated the iovec and free it later.  (or make it part
> of the iocb?)

I left that intentionally alone. I was planning to make it a
special case of Zach's vector IO handling code.


Thanks,
Badari




  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-04 22:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-02 16:12 [PATCH 0/3] VFS changes to collapse all the vectored and AIO support Badari Pulavarty
2006-02-02 16:14 ` [PATCH 1/3] Vectorize aio_read/aio_write methods Badari Pulavarty
2006-02-04 13:28   ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-02-04 22:10     ` Badari Pulavarty [this message]
2006-02-02 16:15 ` [PATCH 2/3] Remove readv/writev methods and use aio_read/aio_write instead Badari Pulavarty
2006-02-02 16:16 ` [PATCH 3/3] Zack's core aio changes to support vectored AIO Badari Pulavarty
2006-03-08  0:19 [RFC PATCH 0/3] VFS changes to collapse all the vectored and AIO support Badari Pulavarty
2006-03-08  0:22 ` [PATCH 1/3] Vectorize aio_read/aio_write methods Badari Pulavarty
2006-03-08 12:44   ` christoph
2006-05-02 15:07 [PATCH 0/3] VFS changes to collapse AIO and vectored IO into single (set of) fileops Badari Pulavarty
2006-05-02 15:08 ` [PATCH 1/3] Vectorize aio_read/aio_write methods Badari Pulavarty
2006-05-02 15:20   ` Chuck Lever
2006-05-02 15:35     ` Badari Pulavarty
2006-05-09 18:03 ` [PATCH 0/3] VFS changes to collapse AIO and vectored IO into single (set of) fileops Badari Pulavarty
2006-05-09 18:07   ` [PATCH 1/3] Vectorize aio_read/aio_write methods Badari Pulavarty
2006-05-09 19:01     ` Andrew Morton
2006-05-09 19:03       ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-05-09 19:13         ` Andrew Morton
2006-05-09 19:20           ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-05-09 23:57             ` Badari Pulavarty
2006-05-10  8:00               ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-05-10 15:01                 ` Badari Pulavarty
2006-05-10 16:01             ` Badari Pulavarty
2006-05-10 20:50           ` Badari Pulavarty
2006-05-09 20:07         ` Badari Pulavarty
2006-05-09 23:53       ` Badari Pulavarty

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