Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 27 Jun 2020 07:51:04 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] fs,block: Introduce RWF_ZONE_APPEND and handling in direct IO path |
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On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 02:45:14AM +0530, Kanchan Joshi wrote: > For block IO path (which is the scope of this patchset) there is no > probelm in using RWF_APPEND for zone-append, because it does not do > anything for block device. We can use that, avoiding introduction of > RWF_ZONE_APPEND in user-space.
No, you are not just touching the block I/O path. This is all over the general file code, and all RWF_* flag are about file I/O.
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