linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] Introduce a version6 of autofs interface, to fix design error.

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Date:	Sun, 29 Apr 2012 12:09:16 -0700
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Michael Tokarev <mjt@....msk.ru>
Cc:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Thomas Meyer <thomas@...3r.de>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, autofs@...r.kernel.org,
	raven@...maw.net, stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Introduce a version6 of autofs interface, to fix
 design error.

On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> But I think I have another approach. We can make the *writer* be the
> only one that cares about the packetized nature, and if it's a packet
> write, it will set a PIPE_BUF_PACKET flag in the pipe buffer. The
> reader can react to that. I think that actually has the potential to
> make the code a bit prettier too..

Patch attached.

This keeps Alan's idea of using O_DIRECT, but only makes it matter for
the writer - because now the "packet" thing is a per-pipe-buffer state
(we already had per-pipe-buffer flags, so this is not anything new).
So when you *write* using a O_DIRECT pipe, it will create packetized
buffers, and the reader just sees that directly.

So this should "just work", and doesn't need any extra flags in the
pipe_inode_info. And the user space interface remains the same: you
can create these packet pipes with "pipe2(fd, O_DIRECT)" if you want
to, and my test-program gives exactly the same output.

                      Linus

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