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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/5] bio: Direct IO: convert to pin_user_pages_fast()
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On 8/24/20 7:22 PM, Al Viro wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 07:07:02PM -0700, John Hubbard wrote:
>> On 8/24/20 6:54 PM, Al Viro wrote:
>>> On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 09:20:54PM -0700, John Hubbard wrote:
>>>
>>>> Direct IO behavior:
>>>>
>>>> ITER_IOVEC:
>>>> pin_user_pages_fast();
>>>> break;
>>>>
>>>> ITER_KVEC: // already elevated page refcount, leave alone
>>>> ITER_BVEC: // already elevated page refcount, leave alone
>>>> ITER_PIPE: // just, no :)
>>>
>>> Why? What's wrong with splice to O_DIRECT file?
>>>
>>
>> Oh! I'll take a look. Is this the fs/splice.c stuff? I ruled this out early
>> mainly based on Christoph's comment in [1] ("ITER_PIPE is rejected іn the
>> direct I/O path"), but if it's supportable then I'll hook it up.
>
> ; cat >a.c <<'EOF'
> #define _GNU_SOURCE
> #include <fcntl.h>
> #include <unistd.h>
> #include <stdlib.h>
>
> int main()
> {
> int fd = open("./a.out", O_DIRECT);
> splice(fd, NULL, 1, NULL, 4096, 0);
> return 0;
> }
> EOF
> ; cc a.c
> ; ./a.out | wc -c
> 4096
>
> and you just had ->read_iter() called with ITER_PIPE destination.
>

That example saves me a lot of time! Much appreciated.

thanks,
--
John Hubbard
NVIDIA

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