Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751789AbaLaWfN (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Dec 2014 17:35:13 -0500 Received: from mail-we0-f172.google.com ([74.125.82.172]:51358 "EHLO mail-we0-f172.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751143AbaLaWfL (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Dec 2014 17:35:11 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: sedat.dilek@gmail.com In-Reply-To: <54A4703B.2000006@oracle.com> References: <1374774659-13121-1-git-send-email-dave.kleikamp@oracle.com> <54A4703B.2000006@oracle.com> Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 23:35:10 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH V8 00/33] loop: Issue O_DIRECT aio using bio_vec From: Sedat Dilek To: Dave Kleikamp Cc: LKML , linux-fsdevel , Andrew Morton , "Maxim V. Patlasov" , Zach Brown , Ming Lei Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1392 Lines: 35 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/