On 02/23/2016 02:16 PM, Andrey Kuzmin wrote:
I/O engine may have special needs as to how the I/O memory should be allocated. The below patch adds respective methods to the I/O engine interface.
What kind of special needs? It's not that I mind adding an IO engine alloc hook, the only issue is that it potentially voids the various job file settings for memory backing etc without the user knowing it. So I think we need some decent justification here, other than "special needs" :-)
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