On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Chris Mason <chris.ma...@fusionio.com> wrote:
>
> It was all a trick to get you to say the AIO code was sane.
It's only sane compared to the DIO code.
That said, I hate AIO much less these days that we've largely merged
the code with the regular IO. It's still a horrible interface, but at
least it is no longer a really disgusting separate implementation in
the kernel of that horrible interface.
So yeah, I guess AIO really is pretty sane these days.
> It looks like we could use the private copy of i_blkbits that DIO is
> already recording.
Yes. But that didn't fix the blkdev_get_blocks() mess you pointed out.
I've pushed out two more commits to the 'block-dev' branch at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux block-dev
in case anybody wants to take a look.
It is - as usual - entirely untested. It compiles, and I *think* that
blkdev_get_blocks() makes a whole lot more sense this way - as you
said, it should be byte-based (although it actually does the block
number conversion because I worried about overflow - probably
unnecessarily).
Comments?
Linus
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