On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 03:29:11PM -0500, Ted Ts'o wrote: > On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 10:51:20AM -0600, Dave Kleikamp wrote: > > Committee members, > > > > Please consider inviting me to the Storage, Filesystem, & MM Summit. I > > am working in Chris Mason's team at Oracle focusing on storage I/O. > > > > My latest focus is on completing the work started on by Zach Brown to > > add a kernel interface to allow kernel code to submit aio, and having > > the loop device submit direct IO requests to the underlying file system. > > We should talk; I'm currently working on an async bmap function for > ext4, which I then intended to use for a modified high-level AIO > support framework that allowed for async metadata access. That is, > I'm interested in solving the "AIO isn't really 'A'" problem. Hi Ted, Async metadata accessing is on our TODO list too. Would you like to share more information to us? Maybe we can discuss this topic in ext4 developer's workshop. Thank you. Regards, Zheng > > That's a different problem that what you're working on, but it's > obviously going to touch the same code. (Actually, my original plan > was to not touch the generic code in __blockdev_direct_IO and below > and create some ext4-specific code for now, but if you're going to be > messing around in that code path anyway, we should coordinate....) > > - Ted > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
