From: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
To: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>, Daniel McNeil <daniel@osdl.org>,
"linux-aio@kvack.org" <linux-aio@kvack.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [rfc patch 2/2] direct-io: remove address alignment check
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 20:16:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050715191653.GI16877@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1121449846.6755.91.camel@dyn9047017102.beaverton.ibm.com>
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 10:50:46AM -0700, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> I believe some OSs do buffered IO, if there is a problem with alignment.
That's what I said. They all do buffered I/O if the alignment
is not 512B. They do _not_ try to accept alignments that are smaller.
There's no good reason to. It just adds needless complexity.
Joel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-15 19:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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 [this message]
[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
2005-07-14 20:40 ` Daniel McNeil
2005-07-14 23:39 ` Andrew Morton
2005-07-15 0:03 ` Daniel McNeil
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