linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] block_dev: don't update file access position for sync direct IO

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Date:   Wed, 14 Dec 2016 11:20:39 +0100
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>
Cc:     Shaohua Li <shli@...com>, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@...com,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block_dev: don't update file access position for sync
        direct IO

On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 09:08:18PM -0700, Jens Axboe wrote:
> That's not great... Thanks, added.

Ooops, yeah - we're still going through ->direct_IO for block devices.
I'll take a stab at removing that, as it's just a pointless indirect
call.