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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Daniel McNeil <daniel@osdl.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [rfc patch 2/2] direct-io: remove address alignment check
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 20:23:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050714182325.GI23737@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1121356952.6025.33.camel@ibm-c.pdx.osdl.net>

> That is exactly why I made this a separate patch, so that we
> can test and find out where the problems are and work to fix
> them.

That's pretty hard because there are a lot of block drivers.

And might not very nice for people's data.

> 
> Are there problems only with odd sizes, or do drivers have problems
> with non-512 sizes?

I believe they have problems with non 512 sizes (and probably alignments) 
too.

-Andi


  reply	other threads:[~2005-07-14 18:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1121298112.6025.21.camel@ibm-c.pdx.osdl.net.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2005-07-14 13:18 ` Andi Kleen
2005-07-14 16:02   ` Daniel McNeil
2005-07-14 18:23     ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2005-07-14 20:40       ` Daniel McNeil
2005-07-14 23:39         ` Andrew Morton
2005-07-15  0:03           ` Daniel McNeil
2005-07-13 23:43 Daniel McNeil
2005-07-14 23:16 ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-07-14 23:44   ` Daniel McNeil
2005-07-15  5:27     ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-07-15 20:06       ` Daniel McNeil
2005-07-15  0:28 ` Tejun Heo
2005-07-15  5:18   ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-07-15  8:23     ` Tejun Heo
2005-07-15 17:54       ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-07-16  3:50         ` Tejun Heo
2005-07-15 16:56     ` Joel Becker
2005-07-15 17:50       ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-07-15 19:16         ` Joel Becker

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