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SubjectRe: [PATCH] 2.4.20 Direct IO patch for NFS. (Note: a trivial API change...)
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>>>>> " " == Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org> writes:

>> -static int blkdev_direct_IO(int rw, struct inode * inode,
>> struct kiobuf * iobuf, unsigned long blocknr, int blocksize)
>> +static int blkdev_direct_IO(int rw, struct file * filp, struct
>> kiobuf * iobuf, unsigned long blocknr, int blocksize) {
>> + struct inode * inode =
>> filp->f_dentry->d_inode->i_mapping->host;
>> return generic_direct_IO(rw, inode, iobuf, blocknr, blocksize,
>> blkdev_get_block); }
>>

> isn't that two dereferences more than necessary for a local
> filesystem?

IIRC this is an issue with block filesystems: the i_mapping->host may
differ from d_inode.

It is in any case just the exact same dereference that is being made
in the current version of generic_file_direct_IO(). The API change
simply moves this dereference down into the filesystem code.

Cheers,
Trond
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