>
> DIF (PI) emulation doesn't work when a target uses async I/O, because
> DIF metadata is saved in a separate file, and it is another non-trivial
> task how to synchronize writing in two files, so that a following read
> operation always returns a consisten metadata for a specified block.
As said, this isn't really in any way aio specific.
> + int is_write = !(data_direction == DMA_FROM_DEVICE);
bool is_write = data_direction != DMA_FROM_DEVICE;
> + if (is_write && (cmd->se_cmd_flags & SCF_FUA))
> + aio_cmd->iocb.ki_flags |= IOCB_DSYNC;
> +
> + if (is_write)
> + ret = call_write_iter(file, &aio_cmd->iocb, &iter);
> + else
> + ret = call_read_iter(file, &aio_cmd->iocb, &iter);
> +
> + kfree(bvec);
While this looks good to me this is the same pattern just said doesn't
work in loop. So it works here just fine?
Otherwise this looks fine to me:
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <h...@lst.de>
