Re: block device direct I/O fast path

[Jens Axboe]

On Tue, Nov 01 2016, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 11:00:19AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > #2 is a bit more problematic, I'm pondering how we can implement that on
> > top of the bio approach. The nice thing about the request based approach
> > is that we have a 1:1 mapping with the unit on the driver side. And we
> > have a place to store the timer. I don't particularly love the embedded
> > timer, however, it'd be great to implement that differently. Trying to
> > think of options there, haven't found any yet.
> 
> I have a couple ideas for that.  Give me a few weeks and I'll send
> patches.

I'm not that patient :-)

For the SYNC part, it should be easy enough to do by just using an
on-stack hrtimer. I guess that will do for now, since we don't have
poll support for async O_DIRECT right now anyway.

http://git.kernel.dk/cgit/linux-block/commit/?h=for-4.10/dio&id=e96d9afd56791a61d463cb88f8f3b48393b71020

Untested, but should get the point across. I'll fire up a test box.

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Jens Axboe