linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: optimize ext4 direct I/O locking for reading

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Message-ID: <20160922131854.GA14759@infradead.org>
Date:   Thu, 22 Sep 2016 06:18:54 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:     Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: optimize ext4 direct I/O locking for reading

On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 02:31:43PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> So I think what Christoph meant in this case is something like attached
> patch. That achieves more than your dirty hack in a much cleaner way.
> Beware, the patch is only compile-tested.

Yes, that's exactly what I had in mind.
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