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

From: David Hildenbrand
Date: Tue Jan 24 2023 - 08:23:33 EST


On 24.01.23 14:16, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
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.

Thanks for the info ... I assume these are then for other filesystems, right? (such that we could adjust the tests to exercise these as well)

... do we have a list (or is it easy to make one)? :)

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Thanks,

David / dhildenb