From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: block device direct I/O fast path
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2016 11:54:37 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161101175437.GC9797@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161101170636.GA22639@lst.de>
On Tue, Nov 01 2016, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 11:00:19AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > #2 is a bit more problematic, I'm pondering how we can implement that on
> > top of the bio approach. The nice thing about the request based approach
> > is that we have a 1:1 mapping with the unit on the driver side. And we
> > have a place to store the timer. I don't particularly love the embedded
> > timer, however, it'd be great to implement that differently. Trying to
> > think of options there, haven't found any yet.
>
> I have a couple ideas for that. Give me a few weeks and I'll send
> patches.
I'm not that patient :-)
For the SYNC part, it should be easy enough to do by just using an
on-stack hrtimer. I guess that will do for now, since we don't have
poll support for async O_DIRECT right now anyway.
http://git.kernel.dk/cgit/linux-block/commit/?h=for-4.10/dio&id=e96d9afd56791a61d463cb88f8f3b48393b71020
Untested, but should get the point across. I'll fire up a test box.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-01 17:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-31 17:59 Christoph Hellwig
2016-10-31 17:59 ` [PATCH 1/2] block: add bio_iov_iter_get_pages() Christoph Hellwig
2016-11-01 1:05 ` Ming Lei
2016-11-01 14:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-10-31 17:59 ` [PATCH 2/2] block: fast-path for small and simple direct I/O requests Christoph Hellwig
2016-10-31 23:19 ` Omar Sandoval
2016-11-01 14:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-11-01 17:00 ` block device direct I/O fast path Jens Axboe
2016-11-01 17:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-11-01 17:54 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2016-11-01 18:22 ` Jens Axboe
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