Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Oct 2020 10:02:42 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 00/16] Allow readpage to return a locked page |
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On Fri, Oct 09, 2020 at 03:30:48PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote: > Ideally all filesystems would return from ->readpage with the page > Uptodate and Locked, but it's a bit painful to convert all the > asynchronous readpage implementations to synchronous. The first 14 > filesystems converted are already synchronous. The last two patches > convert iomap to synchronous readpage.
Is it really that bad? It seems like a lot of the remainig file systems use the generic mpage/buffer/nobh helpers.
But I guess this series is a good first step.
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