On Thu, 22 Jul 2021, Eric Biggers wrote: > Hi Lee, > > On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 12:23:47PM +0100, Lee Jones wrote: > > > > No review after 7 weeks on the list. > > > > Is there anything Satya can do to help expedite this please? > > > > This series is basically ready, but I can't apply it because it depends on the > other patch series > "[PATCH v4 0/9] ensure bios aren't split in middle of crypto data unit" > (https://lkml.kernel.org/linux-block/20210707052943.3960-1-satyaprateek2357@xxxxxxxxx/T/#u). > I will be re-reviewing that other patch series soon, but it primary needs review > by the people who work more regularly with the block layer, and it will have to > go in through the block tree (I can't apply it to the fscrypt tree). > > The original version of this series didn't require so many block layer changes, > but it would have only allowed direct I/O with user buffer pointers aligned to > the filesystem block size, which was too controversial with other filesystem > developers; see the long discussion at > https://lkml.kernel.org/linux-fscrypt/20200720233739.824943-1-satyat@xxxxxxxxxx/T/#u. > > In addition, it was requested that we not add features to the "legacy" direct > I/O implementation (fs/direct-io.c), so I have a patch series in progress > "[PATCH 0/9] f2fs: use iomap for direct I/O" > (https://lkml.kernel.org/linux-f2fs-devel/20210716143919.44373-1-ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx/T/#u) > which will change f2fs to use iomap. > > Also please understand that Satya has left Google, so any further work from him > on this is happening on a personal capacity in his free time. Thanks for the update Eric. I'll push this to the back of my queue and check back with you at a later date. Hopefully we see some interest from the other maintainers sooner, rather than later. -- Lee Jones [李琼斯] Senior Technical Lead - Developer Services Linaro.org │ Open source software for Arm SoCs Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog
