linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 6/8] nowait aio: ext4

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Message-ID: <20170410074539.GA18250@infradead.org>
Date:   Mon, 10 Apr 2017 00:45:39 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@...e.de>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, jack@...e.com,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org,
        sagi@...mberg.me, avi@...lladb.com, axboe@...nel.dk,
        linux-api@...r.kernel.org, willy@...radead.org,
        tom.leiming@...il.com, Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@...e.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/8] nowait aio: ext4

On Tue, Apr 04, 2017 at 01:41:09PM -0500, Goldwyn Rodrigues wrote:
> I am working on incorporating RWF_* flags. However, I am not sure how
> RWF_* flags would get rid of FS_NOWAIT/FS_NOWAIT_IO. Since most of
> "blocking" information is with the filesystem, it is a per-filesystem
> flag to block out (EOPNOTSUPP) the filesystems which do not support it.

You need to check the flag in the actual read/write methods as the
support for features on Linux is not a per-file_system_type thing.