On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 09:49:25PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote: > This patches provides two approaches for enabling direct IO > from user space: > > - userspace(such as losetup) can pass 'file' which is > opened/fcntl as O_DIRECT > - sysfs file is provided to run dio tests easily
I really don't think two interfaces are a good idea here. The interface for loop has always been that userspaces passes a FD and we use it, so let's keep it that way. And while we're at it please also send a patch for losetup so that we can actually use the feature. -- 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/
