Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 4 Feb 2008 14:39:39 -0500 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [patch 0/3] add perform_write to a_ops |
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On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 06:04:10PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > a_ops->perform_write() was left out from Nick Piggin's new a_ops > patchset, as it was non-essential, and postponed for later inclusion. > > This short series reintroduces it, but only adds the fuse > implementation and not simple_perform_write(), which I'm not sure > would be a significant improvement. > > This allows larger than 4k buffered writes for fuse, which is one of > the most requested features. > > This goes on top of the "fuse: writable mmap" patches.
Please don't do this, but rather implement your own .aio_write. There's very little in generic_file_aio_write that wouldn't be handle by ->perform_write and we should rather factor those up or move to higher layers than adding this ill-defined abstraction.
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