Re: [PATCH v4 00/31] loop: Issue O_DIRECT aio using bio_vec

2012-11-23 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On 11/22/2012 01:47 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 04:40:40PM -0600, Dave Kleikamp wrote: >> It introduces new file ops, read_iter() and write_iter(), that replace the >> aio_read() and aio_write() operations. The iov_iter structure can now contain >> either a user-space iov

Re: [PATCH v4 00/31] loop: Issue O_DIRECT aio using bio_vec

2012-11-22 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 04:40:40PM -0600, Dave Kleikamp wrote: > It introduces new file ops, read_iter() and write_iter(), that replace the > aio_read() and aio_write() operations. The iov_iter structure can now contain > either a user-space iovec or a kernel-space bio_vec. Since it would be > over

[PATCH v4 00/31] loop: Issue O_DIRECT aio using bio_vec

2012-11-22 Thread Dave Kleikamp
This patchset was begun by Zach Brown and was originally submitted for review in October, 2009. Feedback was positive, and I have picked up where he left off, porting his patches to the latest mainline kernel and adding support more file systems. This patch series adds a kernel interface to fs/aio