linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH v7 11/11] ext4: introduce direct I/O write using iomap infrastructure

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Message-ID: <20191105205303.GA26959@mit.edu>
Date:   Tue, 5 Nov 2019 15:53:03 -0500
From:   "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To:     Matthew Bobrowski <mbobrowski@...browski.org>
Cc:     Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, adilger.kernel@...ger.ca,
        linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        riteshh@...ux.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 11/11] ext4: introduce direct I/O write using iomap
 infrastructure

On Wed, Nov 06, 2019 at 07:32:00AM +1100, Matthew Bobrowski wrote:
> > Otherwise you would write out and invalidate too much AFAICT - the 'offset'
> > is position just before we fall back to buffered IO. Otherwise this hunk
> > looks good to me.
> 
> Er, yes. That's right, it should rather be 'err' instead or else we
> would write/invalidate too much. I actually had this originally, but I
> must've muddled it up while rewriting this patch on my other computer.
> 
> Thanks for picking that up!

I can fix that up in my tree, unless there are any other changes that
we need to make.

					- Ted