Andrew Morton wrote on Thursday, March 10, 2005 12:31 PM > > > Fine-grained alignment is probably too hard, and it should fall back to > > > __blockdev_direct_IO(). > > > > > > Does it do the right thing with a request which is non-page-aligned, but > > > 512-byte aligned? > > > > > > readv and writev? > > > > > > > That's why direct_io_worker() is slower. It does everything and handles > > every possible usage scenarios out there. I hope making the function > > fatter > > is not in the plan. > > We just cannot make a change like this if it does not support readv and > writev well, and if it does not support down-to-512-byte size and > alignment. It will break applications.
I must misread your mail. Yes it does support 512-byte size and alignment. Let me work on the readv/writev support (unless someone beat me to it). - Ken - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
