Re: [PATCH 1/5] aio: Export symbols and struct kiocb_batch for inkernel aio usage

[James Bottomley]

On Thu, 2012-07-12 at 23:35 +0800, Asias He wrote:
> This is useful for people who want to use aio in kernel, e.g. vhost-blk.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Asias He <asias@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  fs/aio.c            |   37 ++++++++++++++++++-------------------
>  include/linux/aio.h |   21 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

Um, I think you don't quite understand how aio in the kernel would work;
it's not as simple as just exporting the interfaces.  There's already a
(very long) patch set from oracle to do this so loop can use aio:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=133312234313122

James


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