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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/5] aio: Export symbols and struct kiocb_batch for in kernel aio usage
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On Thu, 2012-07-12 at 23:35 +0800, Asias He wrote:
> This is useful for people who want to use aio in kernel, e.g. vhost-blk.
>
> Signed-off-by: Asias He <asias@redhat.com>
> ---
> fs/aio.c | 37 ++++++++++++++++++-------------------
> include/linux/aio.h | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

Um, I think you don't quite understand how aio in the kernel would work;
it's not as simple as just exporting the interfaces. There's already a
(very long) patch set from oracle to do this so loop can use aio:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=133312234313122

James




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