linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: flag as supporting buffered async reads

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Message-ID: <20200818181117.GA34125@mit.edu>
Date:   Tue, 18 Aug 2020 14:11:17 -0400
From:   "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To:     Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Cc:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: flag as supporting buffered async reads

On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 05:02:11PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> ext4 uses generic_file_read_iter(), which already supports this.
> 
> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
> 
> ---
> 
> Resending this one, as I've been carrying it privately since May. The
> necessary bits are now upstream (and XFS/btrfs equiv changes as well),
> please consider this one for 5.9. Thanks!

The necessary commit only hit upstream as of 5.9-rc1, unless I'm
missing something?  It's on my queue to send to Linus once I get my
(late) ext4 primary pull request for 5.9.

						- Ted