On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 07:07:02PM -0700, John Hubbard wrote:
> On 8/24/20 6:54 PM, Al Viro wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 09:20:54PM -0700, John Hubbard wrote:
> >
> > > Direct IO behavior:
> > >
> > > ITER_IOVEC:
> > > pin_user_pages_fast();
> > > break;
> > >
> > > ITER_KVEC: // already elevated page refcount, leave alone
> > > ITER_BVEC: // already elevated page refcount, leave alone
> > > ITER_PIPE: // just, no :)
> >
> > Why? What's wrong with splice to O_DIRECT file?
> >
>
> Oh! I'll take a look. Is this the fs/splice.c stuff? I ruled this out early
> mainly based on Christoph's comment in [1] ("ITER_PIPE is rejected іn the
> direct I/O path"), but if it's supportable then I'll hook it up.
; cat >a.c <<'EOF'
#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int main()
{
int fd = open("./a.out", O_DIRECT);
splice(fd, NULL, 1, NULL, 4096, 0);
return 0;
}
EOF
; cc a.c
; ./a.out | wc -c
4096
and you just had ->read_iter() called with ITER_PIPE destination.
