Re: [PATCH v8 00/10] iov_iter: Improve page extraction (pin or just list)

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue Jan 24 2023 - 08:17:18 EST


On Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 01:44:21PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> Once landed upstream, if we feel confident enough (I tend to), we could
> adjust the open() man page to state that O_DIRECT can now be run
> concurrently with fork(). Especially, the following documentation might be
> adjusted:

Note that while these series coverts the two most commonly used
O_DIRECT implementations, there are various others ones that do not
pin the pages yet.