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Re: [Xen-devel] [patch 0/6] xenblk: Add O_DIRECT and O_SYNC support.

To: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [patch 0/6] xenblk: Add O_DIRECT and O_SYNC support.
From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 08:44:27 +0000
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>, Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, kurt.hackel@xxxxxxxxxx, shinya.narahara@xxxxxxxxxx, Joe Jin <joe.jin@xxxxxxxxxx>, greg.marsden@xxxxxxxxxx, wen.gang.wang@xxxxxxxxxx
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On 6/11/08 08:17, "Jens Axboe" <jens.axboe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> The medium- to long-term issue is just to make sure that Jeremy's port of
>> blkback into upstream Linux (which he's probably working on at the moment)
>> doesn't perpetuate the bio violations. But I guess we should fix 2.6.18 too
>> since others base their own Xen patchsets on it still (e.g., for dom0
>> support).
> 
> Ah thanks! Perhaps we can talk Joe into snipping the bio_alloc() changes
> out of his patch #2 - Joe, just the bio_alloc() and submit_bio() stuff,
> you don't have to include the bio_set changes.

But Joe's patch still queues up bios into an array, the same as ever?

 -- Keir



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