[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 02/17] vfs: Export __generic_file_aio_write() and add some comments

[Jan Kara]

On Wed 19-08-09 12:11:45, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 06:04:29PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> > Rename __generic_file_aio_write_nolock() to __generic_file_aio_write(), add
> > comments to write helpers explaining how they should be used and export
> > __generic_file_aio_write() since it will be used by some filesystems.
> 
> The renaming and commenting looks good to me, and the export is fine
> with me given that we'll actually use it later one.
> 
> 
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
> 
> Can we maybe get rid of generic_file_aio_write_nolock after you patch
> series?
  In principle we could. It's just that block devices don't need i_mutex
for serializing writes so I found it dumb to serialize writes to the block
device needlessly. But we could move generic_file_aio_write_nolock to
blockdev.c and name it like blockdev_aio_write() since noone else uses
it after my series. I guess I'll do that.

								Honza
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Jan Kara <jack at suse.cz>
SUSE Labs, CR