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From: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Zach Brown <zab@zabbo.net>,
	Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 18/21] ext4: add support for read_iter and write_iter
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 11:42:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120402184204.GE2880@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1333122228-13633-19-git-send-email-dave.kleikamp@oracle.com>

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 10:43:45AM -0500, Dave Kleikamp wrote:
> use the generic .read_iter and .write_iter functions

Potentially silly question --- why not use NULL pointer to mean
generic_file_read_iter and generic_file_write_iter?  Then you won't
have to patch a bunch of file systems to add the generic .read_iter
and .write_iter?

						- Ted

  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-02 18:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-30 15:43 [RFC PATCH v2 00/21] loop: Issue O_DIRECT aio using bio_vec Dave Kleikamp
2012-03-30 15:43 ` [RFC PATCH v2 01/21] iov_iter: move into its own file Dave Kleikamp
2012-03-30 15:43 ` [RFC PATCH v2 02/21] iov_iter: add copy_to_user support Dave Kleikamp
2012-03-30 15:43 ` [RFC PATCH v2 04/21] iov_iter: hide iovec details behind ops function pointers Dave Kleikamp
2012-03-30 15:43 ` [RFC PATCH v2 05/21] iov_iter: add bvec support Dave Kleikamp
2012-03-30 15:43 ` [RFC PATCH v2 06/21] iov_iter: add a shorten call Dave Kleikamp
2012-03-30 15:43 ` [RFC PATCH v2 07/21] iov_iter: let callers extract iovecs and bio_vecs Dave Kleikamp
2012-03-30 15:43 ` [RFC PATCH v2 08/21] dio: create a dio_aligned() helper function Dave Kleikamp
2012-03-30 15:43 ` [RFC PATCH v2 09/21] dio: Convert direct_IO to use iov_iter Dave Kleikamp
2012-03-30 15:43 ` [RFC PATCH v2 10/21] dio: add bio_vec support to __blockdev_direct_IO() Dave Kleikamp
2012-03-30 15:43 ` [RFC PATCH v2 11/21] fs: pull iov_iter use higher up the stack Dave Kleikamp
2012-03-30 15:43 ` [RFC PATCH v2 12/21] aio: add aio_kernel_() interface Dave Kleikamp
2012-03-30 15:43 ` [RFC PATCH v2 13/21] aio: add aio support for iov_iter arguments Dave Kleikamp
2012-03-30 15:43 ` [RFC PATCH v2 14/21] bio: add bvec_length(), like iov_length() Dave Kleikamp
2012-03-30 15:43 ` [RFC PATCH v2 15/21] loop: use aio to perform io on the underlying file Dave Kleikamp
2012-04-20 14:48   ` Maxim V. Patlasov
2012-04-20 15:09     ` Dave Kleikamp
2012-04-20 15:20       ` Jeff Moyer
2012-04-20 15:52         ` Zach Brown
2012-04-20 15:57           ` Dave Kleikamp
2012-04-20 16:14             ` Maxim V. Patlasov
2012-04-20 17:19               ` Dave Kleikamp
2012-04-20 17:37                 ` Maxim V. Patlasov
2012-04-20 16:35           ` Jeff Moyer
2012-04-20 17:48             ` Zach Brown
2012-04-20 16:14         ` Dave Kleikamp
2012-03-30 15:43 ` [RFC PATCH v2 16/21] ext3: add support for .read_iter and .write_iter Dave Kleikamp
2012-03-30 15:43 ` [RFC PATCH v2 17/21] ocfs2: add support for read_iter, write_iter, and direct_IO_bvec Dave Kleikamp
2012-03-30 15:43 ` [RFC PATCH v2 18/21] ext4: add support for read_iter and write_iter Dave Kleikamp
2012-04-02 18:42   ` Ted Ts'o [this message]
2012-04-02 22:45     ` Dave Kleikamp
2012-04-03  0:11       ` Dave Kleikamp
     [not found] ` <1333122228-13633-1-git-send-email-dave.kleikamp-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2012-03-30 15:43   ` [RFC PATCH v2 03/21] fuse: convert fuse to use iov_iter_copy_[to|from]_user Dave Kleikamp
2012-03-30 15:43   ` [RFC PATCH v2 19/21] nfs: add support for read_iter, write_iter Dave Kleikamp
2012-03-30 15:43 ` [RFC PATCH v2 20/21] btrfs: add support for read_iter and write_iter Dave Kleikamp
2012-03-30 15:43 ` [RFC PATCH v2 21/21] fs: add read_iter and write_iter to more file systems Dave Kleikamp

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