linux-ext4 - Re: [RFC 1/2] iomap: direct-io: Move inode_dio_begin before filemap_write_and_wait

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Date:   Tue, 14 Jan 2020 08:37:02 -0800
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, tytso@....edu, jack@...e.cz
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/2] iomap: direct-io: Move inode_dio_begin before
 filemap_write_and_wait_range

Please add at very least the fsdevel and xfs lists to iomap patches.

Using i_dio_count for any kind of detection is bogus.  If you want to
pass flags to the writeback code please do so explicitly through
struct writeback_control.