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FromDavid Howells <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/4] CacheFiles: Use the ->write() file op rather than a special kernel aop
DateFri, 03 Apr 2009 10:51:56 +0100
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:

> This reverts the patch:
>
> CacheFiles: Add a hook to write a single page of data to an inode
>
> Add an address space operation to write one single page of data to an
> inode at a page-aligned location (thus permitting the implementation to
> be highly optimised). The data source is a single page.
>
> This is used by CacheFiles to store the contents of netfs pages into
> their backing file pages.
>
> Supply a generic implementation for this that uses the write_begin()
> and write_end() address_space operations to bind a copy directly into
> the page cache.
>
> Hook the Ext2 and Ext3 operations to the generic implementation.

Actually, it doesn't. I split that out into the next patch, but I forgot to
edit the patch description.

David


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