Re: io_pgetevents & aio fsync V4

[Al Viro]

On Wed, May 02, 2018 at 11:14:41PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> this patch adds workqueue based fsync offload.  Version of this
> patch have been floating around for a couple years, but we now
> have a user with seastar used by ScyllaDB (who sponsored this
> work) that really wants this in addition to the aio poll support.
> More details are in the patch itself.
> 
> Because the iocb types have been defined sine day one (and probably
> were supported by RHEL3) libaio already supports these calls as-is.
> 
> This also pulls in the aio cleanups and io_pgetevents support previously
> submitted and review as part of the aio poll series.  The aio poll
> series will be resubmitted on top of this series
> 
> A git tree is available here:
> 
>     git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/vfs.git aio-fsync.4

I can live with that.  Merged.