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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH 18/22] ext3: add support for .read_iter and .write_iter
On 02/27/2012 04:34 PM, Zach Brown wrote:
>
>> drivers/block/loop.c | 55 ++++++++++++++++++-
>> fs/ext3/file.c | 2 +
>> fs/ext3/inode.c | 149
>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
>> include/linux/loop.h | 1 +
>> 4 files changed, 160 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-)
>
> It looks like the patch that teaches loop to use the kernel aio
> interface got combined with the patch that adds the _bvec entry points
> to ext3.

Okay, looking back, your patchset had them separate. This was my error.
I'll separate them again.

>> + if (file->f_op->write_iter&& file->f_op->read_iter) {
>> + file->f_flags |= O_DIRECT;
>> + lo_flags |= LO_FLAGS_USE_AIO;
>> + }
>
> This manual setting of f_flags still looks very fishy to me. I remember
> finding that pattern somewhere else but that's not very comforting :).
>
> - z


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