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Date:   Tue, 24 Jan 2023 14:22:36 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 00/10] iov_iter: Improve page extraction (pin or just
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To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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        Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
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On 24.01.23 14:16, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 01:44:21PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>> Once landed upstream, if we feel confident enough (I tend to), we could
>> adjust the open() man page to state that O_DIRECT can now be run
>> concurrently with fork(). Especially, the following documentation might be
>> adjusted:
> 
> Note that while these series coverts the two most commonly used
> O_DIRECT implementations, there are various others ones that do not
> pin the pages yet.

Thanks for the info ... I assume these are then for other filesystems, 
right? (such that we could adjust the tests to exercise these as well)

... do we have a list (or is it easy to make one)? :)

-- 
Thanks,

David / dhildenb