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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>,
	Linux Filesystems <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>,
	Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] new new aops patchset
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 08:45:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070405074529.GB25196@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070405021305.GD11192@wotan.suse.de>

On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 04:13:05AM +0200, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > On a related note - what's the rules for a perform_write() implementation?
> > I noticed that wasn't documented with write_begin and write_end and
> > I don't see any other filesystem implementing it yet....
> 
> Ah, so it isn't, thanks I'll document it. (today I'm looking at doing a
> simple_perform_write and perhaps another easy one, which should also help
> filesystem maintainers to have a reference).

I think ->perform_write should go away.  It's really just duplicating
->write for the !O_DIRECT case.  Instead we should factor the remaining
bits of generic_file_aio_write into nice helpers so that people that don't
want to use the generic part can build their own ->write from these pieces.


  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-05  7:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-02 12:09 [ANNOUNCE] new new aops patchset Nick Piggin
2007-04-02 20:18 ` Badari Pulavarty
2007-04-03  0:45   ` Nick Piggin
2007-04-02 20:44 ` Badari Pulavarty
2007-04-02 23:58   ` Nick Piggin
2007-04-03 15:59     ` Badari Pulavarty
2007-04-04  2:33       ` Nick Piggin
2007-04-02 21:44 ` Badari Pulavarty
2007-04-02 23:08 ` Badari Pulavarty
2007-04-02 23:14 ` Badari Pulavarty
2007-04-02 23:49   ` Nick Piggin
2007-04-03 15:57     ` Badari Pulavarty
2007-04-04  2:31       ` Nick Piggin
2007-04-02 23:31 ` Badari Pulavarty
2007-04-02 23:35   ` Nick Piggin
2007-04-02 23:56 ` Badari Pulavarty
2007-04-03  0:02   ` Nick Piggin
2007-04-03  0:00 ` Badari Pulavarty
2007-04-03  0:08   ` Nick Piggin
2007-04-03  9:31     ` Nick Piggin
2007-04-03 16:03       ` Badari Pulavarty
2007-04-04  2:37         ` Nick Piggin
2007-04-03 17:35 ` Badari Pulavarty
2007-04-04  3:05   ` Nick Piggin
2007-04-04 22:10 ` Mark Fasheh
2007-04-04 22:39   ` Badari Pulavarty
2007-04-04 22:51     ` Mark Fasheh
2007-04-04 23:02       ` Badari Pulavarty
2007-04-04 23:05   ` Badari Pulavarty
2007-04-04 23:17     ` Mark Fasheh
2007-04-04 23:32       ` Badari Pulavarty
2007-04-05  2:08         ` Nick Piggin
2007-04-05 15:21           ` Badari Pulavarty
2007-04-06  1:38             ` Nick Piggin
2007-04-05  2:09   ` Nick Piggin
2007-04-05  0:10 ` David Chinner
2007-04-05  2:13   ` Nick Piggin
2007-04-05  7:45     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2007-04-05  7:58       ` Nick Piggin
2007-04-05  2:43   ` David Chinner
2007-04-05  3:00     ` Nick Piggin
2007-04-05  6:18       ` David Chinner
2007-04-05  6:40         ` Nick Piggin

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