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

[Christoph Hellwig]

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.

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