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DateTue, 22 Apr 2008 16:54:18 +0200
FromJens Axboe <>
SubjectRe: [RFC][PATCH 0/10] I/O context inheritance
On Tue, Apr 22 2008, Hirokazu Takahashi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sorry, these patches are for linux-2.6.25.
>
> > This series of patches make the block I/O layer and the I/O schedulers
> > be able to determine the right io_context of every I/O.
> >
> > The current implementation of the block I/O layer and the I/O schedulers
> > assume that the current process is the one which issued the given I/O,
> > then use the io_context of this process to control the I/O.
> > But this assumption isn't quite right because several kernel threads
> > will handle I/O requests on behalf of the processes which originated them.
> > This often happens when you want to use device mapper modules.
> >
> > The patches make every bio has a pointer to an io_context, which will
> > be set when it is allocated or cloned. So it makes it possible to find
> > the right io_context from any bio at any place.
> >
> > I'm waiting for your comments.

Can you give a brief summary of what you need this stuff for?

--
Jens Axboe



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