On 3/22/18 12:34 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >> DIF (PI) emulation doesn't work when a target uses async I/O, because >> DIF metadata is saved in a separate file, and it is another non-trivial >> task how to synchronize writing in two files, so that a following read >> operation always returns a consisten metadata for a specified block. > As said, this isn't really in any way aio specific. > >> + int is_write = !(data_direction == DMA_FROM_DEVICE); > bool is_write = data_direction != DMA_FROM_DEVICE; > >> + if (is_write && (cmd->se_cmd_flags & SCF_FUA)) >> + aio_cmd->iocb.ki_flags |= IOCB_DSYNC; >> + >> + if (is_write) >> + ret = call_write_iter(file, &aio_cmd->iocb, &iter); >> + else >> + ret = call_read_iter(file, &aio_cmd->iocb, &iter); >> + >> + kfree(bvec); > While this looks good to me this is the same pattern just said doesn't > work in loop. So it works here just fine? > > Otherwise this looks fine to me: > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]> > This patch created the helpers for f_op->read/write: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9580365/
That patch was queued up for 4.11 so I guess if anyone tried to port this patch back they would hit issues if they didn't use f_op. Reviewed-by: Bryant G. Ly <[email protected]> -Bryant
