Re: [PATCH v6 0/5] nfs: modernize direct I/O path

[Pranjal Shrivastava]

On Fri, Sep 11, 2026 at 10:41:57AM -0400, Anna Schumaker wrote:
> Hi Pranjal,
> 
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2026, at 8:57 AM, Pranjal Shrivastava wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 14, 2026 at 02:32:50PM +0000, Pranjal Shrivastava wrote:
> >> Modernize the NFS Direct I/O path as a preparatory step to enable PCI
> >> Peer-to-Peer DMA (P2PDMA) support. Following feedback on the initial
> >> RFC [1], the modernization and architectural changes are split into
> >> different series. Additionally, based on the discussion in the v2 [2]
> >> of this series, the migration of NFS Direct I/O to folios would be
> >> handled in a separate follow-up series.
> >> 
> >> Currently, NFS O_DIRECT relies on the legacy iov_iter_get_pages_alloc2()
> >> API which does not support the pinning requirements for P2P memory.
> >> The implementation moves NFS to the modern iov_iter_extract_pages() API.
> >> 
> >
> > Gentle ping on this series. 
> > (I realized that I sent it close to the merge window, Apologies).
> >
> > Please let me know if anything else needs to be done for this..
> 
> Thanks for the ping! The plan right now is to send it along as part of
> the 7.4 merge window. I haven't pushed out a public linux-next branch
> yet, but when I do these patches will be included.
> 
> I hope this helps!
> Anna
> 

Thanks a lot for responding, quite helpful! :)

Best,
Praan