Re: [PATCHv2 0/3] direct io alignment relax

On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 11:26:20PM +0000, Eric Biggers wrote:

On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 10:11:28AM -0700, Keith Busch wrote:

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From: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>

Including the fs list this time.

I am still working on a better interface to report the dio alignment to
an application. The most recent suggestion of using statx is proving to
be less straight forward than I thought, but I don't want to hold this
series up for that.

Note that I already implemented the statx support and sent it out for review:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20220211061158.227688-1-ebiggers@kernel.org/T/#u (local)
However, the patch series only received one comment.  I can send it out again if
people have become interested in it again...

Thanks, I didn't see that the first time around, but I'll be sure to look at
your new version. It sounds like you encountered the same problem I did
regarding block device handles: the devtmpfs inodes for the raw block device
handles are not the bdev inodes. I do think it's useful the alignment
attributes are accessible through the block device files, though.