Re: [PATCH v1 03/14] mm: add noio support in filemap_get_pages

Stefan Roesch
2022-02-16T18:26:55Z

This patch will be removed from the next version.

On 2/14/22 11:33 AM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 09:43:52AM -0800, Stefan Roesch wrote:
>> This adds noio support for async buffered writes in filemap_get_pages.
>> The idea is to handle the failure gracefully and return -EAGAIN if we
>> can't get the memory quickly.
>
> I don't understand why this helps you. filemap_get_pages() is for
> reads, not writes.