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SubjectRe: [PATCH v6 0/7] vfs: Non-blockling buffered fs read (page cache only)
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Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> writes:

> On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 11:32:53AM -0500, Jeff Moyer wrote:
>
> > > Can you write a test (or set of) for fstests that exercises this new
> > > functionality? I'm not worried about performance, just
> > > correctness....
> >
> > On the subject of testing, I added support to trinity (attached,
> > untested). That did raise one question. Do we expect applications to
> > #include <linux/fs.h> to get the RWF_NONBLOCK definition?
>
> Trinity will at least need an addition to include/compat.h for
> older headers that won't have the definition. Looks ok otherwise.

OK, I'll add that.

> Also, I usually sit on stuff like this until the syscall numbers are
> in Linus tree. This is 3.19 stuff I presume ?
> istr akpm picked up execveat recently, so if that goes in first, we'll
> need to respin this anyway..

Sure. I just wanted to test with trinity *before* it makes it into the
kernel. Crazy, I know. ;-)

Cheers,
Jeff


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