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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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  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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