Re: [RFC PATCH 18/22] ext3: add support for .read_iter and .write_iter

[Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@oracle.com>]

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