linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v9 01/21] cachefiles: extract write routine

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Message-ID: <1393749.1650547482@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
Date:   Thu, 21 Apr 2022 14:24:42 +0100
From:   David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:     Jeffle Xu <jefflexu@...ux.alibaba.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 01/21] cachefiles: extract write routine

Jeffle Xu <jefflexu@...ux.alibaba.com> wrote:

> Extract the generic routine of writing data to cache files, and make it
> generally available.
> 
> This will be used by the following patch implementing on-demand read
> mode. Since it's called inside cachefiles module in this case, make the
> interface generic and unrelated to netfs_cache_resources.
> 
> It is worth noting that, ki->inval_counter is not initialized after
> this cleanup. It shall not make any visible difference, since
> inval_counter is no longer used in the write completion routine, i.e.
> cachefiles_write_complete().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jeffle Xu <jefflexu@...ux.alibaba.com>

Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>