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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>,
	Chuck Lever <cel@netapp.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux FSdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	NFS maillist <nfs@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.4.20 Direct IO patch for NFS. (Note: a trivial API  change...)
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 12:04:44 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D98A04C.2FE206EE@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020930194227.A22095@infradead.org>

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 08:34:04PM +0200, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> >
> > Hi Marcelo,
> >
> >   The following patch implements direct I/O for NFS as a compilation option.
> > It does not in any way touch the standard NFS read/write code, however it
> > does change the interface for generic direct I/O: Instead of taking a
> > 'struct inode' argument, we need to take the full 'struct file' in order
> > to be able to pass the RPC credential information down to the NFS layer.
> 
> I don't think changing the filesystem entry points during 2.4 is an option.
> 

It's a very small change; I wouldn't be very fussed about it personally.

To be source-compatible with out-of-kernel filesystems you could add
a new a_op and do

	if (mapping->direct_IO_which_uses_a_filp)
		use that
	else
		use mapping->direct_IO

but ick.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-09-30 18:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-30 18:34 Trond Myklebust
2002-09-30 18:42 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-09-30 18:46   ` Trond Myklebust
2002-09-30 19:04   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-09-30 19:18   ` Alan Cox
2002-09-30 18:52 ` Matthew Wilcox
2002-09-30 18:57   ` Trond Myklebust

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