From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] vfs: RWF_NONBLOCK flag for preadv2 Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 02:40:47 -0700 Message-ID: <20141024094047.GD29178@infradead.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Christoph Hellwig , linux-fsdevel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-aio-Bw31MaZKKs3YtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org, Mel Gorman , Volker Lendecke , Tejun Heo , Jeff Moyer , Theodore Ts'o , Al Viro , linux-api-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Michael Kerrisk To: Milosz Tanski Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-api-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 04:46:59PM -0400, Milosz Tanski wrote: > Filesystems that generic_file_read_iter will not be allowed to perform > non-blocking reads. This only will read data if it's in the page cache and if > there is no page error (causing a re-read). I can't quite parse the first sentence, can you try to reword it? > Christoph Hellwig wrote the filesystem specify code (cifs, ofs, shm, xfs). s/specify/specific/. It's so trivial that I don't think it matters.