On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 11:56:17PM -0800, Kent Overstreet wrote: > So, I don't think the iov_iter stuff is the right approach for solving > the loop issue; it's an ugly hack and after immutable biovecs we're > pretty close to a better solution and some major cleanups too. All the consumers aren't limited to a block-based filesystem backing, including loop. So we need a file-ops based approach for in-kernel dio/aio. If you have a counter proposal please at least describe it. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
