From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753760AbaACUEZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Jan 2014 15:04:25 -0500 Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:48074 "EHLO userp1040.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752463AbaACUEX (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Jan 2014 15:04:23 -0500 To: Hannes Reinecke Cc: Christoph Hellwig , "Martin K. Petersen" , Jens Axboe , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, "Darrick J. Wong" Subject: Re: status of block-integrity From: "Martin K. Petersen" Organization: Oracle Corporation References: <20131222192128.GA28532@infradead.org> <52C6D0DB.1050906@suse.de> Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2014 15:03:42 -0500 In-Reply-To: <52C6D0DB.1050906@suse.de> (Hannes Reinecke's message of "Fri, 03 Jan 2014 16:01:47 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.130005 (Ma Gnus v0.5) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Source-IP: acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>>>> "Hannes" == Hannes Reinecke writes: Hannes> Personally, I doubt it's a good idea to kill it off, but a Hannes> proper (userland) API for it has been a long time missing. Before we throw the baby out with the bath water, maybe Darrick can fill us in on the progress of the aio passthrough interface? -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering