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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] support appending AIO writes
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 22:57:28 -0800
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On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 09:29:01AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> The patches look sane. Does the dio change conflict with the
> work Al is doing right now of the direct IO path, or will
> marshalling that part of the change through the XFS tree be fine?

I've not seen any changes in that area in Al's trees.  That being said
I don't think this little flag should cause any major problems as we'll
have to pass the flags argument in some form of direct I/O method for
all the other quirks we have.