Re: [RFC] split struct kiocb

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Hi,

On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 09:20:59PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 10:00:24AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > This series cuts down the amount of fiels in the public iocb that is
> > allocated on stack for every synchronous I/O, both by removing fields
> > from it, and by adding a aio-specific iocb that is only allocated
> > for aio requests.
> > 
> > Additionally it cleans up various corner cases in the aio completion
> > code and allowes for adding a simple in-kernel async read/write
> > interface.
> > 
> > The first few patches are from Al's gadget branch and reposted
> > here because they are needed for the rest of the series.
> 
> FWIW, I would really like to hear from USB folks concerning those patches
> (gadgetfs ones, that is).  I don't have any way to test them beyond "does
> it compile" - no hardware that could run Linux and act as USB slave and
> no idea if there are any sane emulator setups (e.g. qemu doesn't seem to
> emulate anything drivers/usb/gadget/udc/* stuff would understand).
> 
> I'm not happy about the idea of having it merged into vfs.git#for-next
> with zero testing and no comments from the people actually using the
> drivers in question, _especially_ if it becomes a never-rebase branch
> used as prereq for other development.
> 
> Now that the merge window is closed, could USB folks review and comment
> on the stuff in
> git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs.git gadget
> ?
> 
> PS: I would prefer to rebase #iov_iter and #gadget to -rc1, actually...

give me a couple days, quite busy myself ;-)

-- 
balbi

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