On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 10:15:00AM -0500, Dave Kleikamp wrote: > This is the current version of the patchset I presented at the LSF-MM > Summit in San Francisco in April. I apologize for letting it go so > long before re-submitting. > > This patchset was begun by Zach Brown and was originally submitted for > review in October, 2009. Feedback was positive, and I have picked up > where he left off, porting his patches to the latest mainline kernel > and adding support more file systems. > > This patch series adds a kernel interface to fs/aio.c so that kernel code can > issue concurrent asynchronous IO to file systems. It adds an aio command and > file system methods which specify io memory with pages instead of userspace > addresses. > > This series was written to reduce the current overhead loop imposes by > performing synchronus buffered file system IO from a kernel thread. These > patches turn loop into a light weight layer that translates bios into iocbs. I note that there is no support for XFS in this patch set. Is there a particular problem that prevents XFS from being converted, or it just hasn't been done? Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- 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
