On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 04:36:05PM +0000, Al Viro wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 08:32:23AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > this patch adds workqueue based fsync offload. Version of this > > patch have been floating around for a couple years, but we now > > have a user with seastar used by ScyllaDB (who sponsored this > > work) that really wants this in addition to the aio poll support. > > More details are in the patch itself. > > > > Because the iocb types have been defined sine day one (and probably > > were supported by RHEL3) libaio already supports these calls as-is. > > > > This also pulls in the aio cleanups and io_pgetevents support previously > > submitted and review as part of the aio poll series. The aio poll > > series will be resubmitted on top of this series > > Everything other than 6/9 looks sane; 6/9 belongs in aio poll series > and AFAICS its user in there is actually broken. Gyah... 7/9, that is.
