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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Anand Avati <avati@gluster.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	miklos@szeredi.hu, fuse-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] fuse: permit O_DIRECT flag in open()
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 07:49:43 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110728114943.GA16704@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALmMsH3ECdky8wu3LEd55SJL7fnxda74Y85Y8B7Tq-pVO+XL_g@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 01:44:08PM +0530, Anand Avati wrote:
> FUSE already has a direct IO implementation (struct file_operations
> fuse_direct_io_file_operation) but is currently set as a file's f_ops
> only based on flags returned from the filesystem server (in the reply
> of an open() call). This patch just lets the filesystem server know a
> userspace application's intention to open a file with O_DIRECT and
> leaves it with the decision to pick direct IO mode on the file (just
> the way it already does before the patch.) There is already a
> framework for direct IO operations and this patch only bridges
> O_DIRECT flag with that framework. Do you still think this is entirely
> incorrect?

Your clearing of the O_DIRECT flag is.  The current handling of O_DIRECT
in the VFS is a bit nasty, but if you have an issue with that fix it up
properly instead of piling more hacks on top of it.


  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-28 11:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-27 10:56 [PATCH v2 1/2] vfs: pass 'struct file *' as parameter to ->check_flags() methods Anand Avati
     [not found] ` <1311764179-20326-1-git-send-email-avati-+FkPdpiNhgJBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>
2011-07-27 10:56   ` [PATCH v2 2/2] fuse: permit O_DIRECT flag in open() Anand Avati
2011-07-27 21:05     ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-07-28  8:14       ` Anand Avati
2011-07-28 11:49         ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2011-07-28 18:12           ` Anand Avati

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