On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 10:52 PM, Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 12/31/2014 02:38 PM, Sedat Dilek wrote: >> >> What has happened to that aio_loop patchset? >> Is it in Linux-next? >> ( /me started to play with "block: loop: convert to blk-mq (v3)", so I >> recalled this other improvement. ) > > It met with some harsh resistance, so I backed off on it. Then Al Viro > got busy re-writing the iov_iter infrastructure and I put my patchset on > the shelf to look at later. Then Ming Lei submitted more up-to-date > patchset: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/8/6/175 > > It looks like Ming is currently only pushing the first half of that > patchset. I don't know what his plans are for the last three patches: > > aio: add aio_kernel_() interface > fd/direct-io: introduce should_dirty for kernel aio > block: loop: support to submit I/O via kernel aio based > I tested with block-mq-v3 (for next-20141231) [1] and this looks promising [2]. Maybe Ming can say what the plan is with the missing parts. - Sedat - [1] http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=142003226701471&w=2 [2]http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=142006516408381&w=2 -- 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
