linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 9/9] aio: implement IOCB_CMD_FSYNC and IOCB_CMD

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Date:   Wed, 21 Mar 2018 10:30:49 +0100
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
        Avi Kivity <avi@...lladb.com>, linux-aio@...ck.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-api@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 9/9] aio: implement IOCB_CMD_FSYNC and IOCB_CMD_FDSYNC

On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 10:27:13AM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> I hate the "bool" arguments to functions as you always need to go back
> and look them up.  A "wrapper" of "aio_fsync_datasync()" and
> "aio_fsync_nodatasync()" around this maybe?

This is how the fsync API works.  Wrappers really don't help anything,
although flags would certainly be nicer.  Next time I need to touch
->fsync for one reason or another that is high on the todo list.