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Re: [PATCH v7 4/6] block: loop: prepare for supporing direct IO

From Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v7 4/6] block: loop: prepare for supporing direct IO
Date 2015-07-28 00:10 +0200
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On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 05:53:33AM -0400, Ming Lei wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 5:45 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 05:41:57AM -0400, Ming Lei wrote:
> >> > Why the hardcoded value?  I suspect this should be more like:
> >> >
> >> >         if (dio && inode->i_sb->s_bdev &&
> >> >             (lo->lo_offset & (bdev_io_min(inode->i_sb->s_bdev) - 1)) != 0)
> >> >                 dio = false;
> >>
> >> The above can't work if the backing device has a bigger sector size
> >> (such as 4K), that is why loop's direct-io requires 512 min_io_size of
> >> backing device.
> >
> > Why doesn't it work?  If the backing device sector size is 4k
> > and lo_offset is 0 or a multiple of 4k it should allow direct I/O,
> > and my code sniplet will allow that.
> 
> Because size has to be 4k aligned too.

So check that, too. Any >= 4k block size filesystem should be doing
mostly 4k aligned and sized IO...

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
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Re: [PATCH v7 4/6] block: loop: prepare for supporing direct IO Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2015-07-27 11:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v7 4/6] block: loop: prepare for supporing direct IO Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> - 2015-07-27 12:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v7 4/6] block: loop: prepare for supporing direct IO Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2015-07-28 00:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v7 4/6] block: loop: prepare for supporing direct IO Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2015-07-29 10:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v7 4/6] block: loop: prepare for supporing direct IO Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> - 2015-07-30 10:10 +0200

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