[PATCH 3/3] xfs_io: implement pwritev for vectored writes

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Sat Jul 28 18:57:48 CDT 2012


On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 08:30:50AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner at redhat.com>
> 
> When looking at KVM based direct IO patterns, I noticed that it was
> using preadv and pwritev, and I could not use xfs_io to simulate
> these IO patterns. Extend the pwrite command to be able to issue
> vectored write IO to enable use to simulate KVM style direct IO.
> 
> Also document the new parameters as well as all the missing pwrite
> command parameters in the xfs_io(8) man page.

Looks good,

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>



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