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ocfs2: prepare some interfaces used in append direct io
authorJoseph Qi <joseph.qi@huawei.com>
Mon, 16 Feb 2015 23:59:50 +0000 (15:59 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 17 Feb 2015 01:56:04 +0000 (17:56 -0800)
commitc804f13da7606d34c957dd26abaa04916f079da8
tree8fb74b121646906d19041ce09a627b85cdd7d427
parent346f73ff385bdc197a264879b36dd8c8b021c5fc
ocfs2: prepare some interfaces used in append direct io

Currently in case of append O_DIRECT write (block not allocated yet),
ocfs2 will fall back to buffered I/O.  This has some disadvantages.
Firstly, it is not the behavior as expected.  Secondly, it will consume
huge page cache, e.g.  in mass backup scenario.  Thirdly, modern
filesystems such as ext4 support this feature.

In this patch set, the direct I/O write doesn't fallback to buffer I/O
write any more because the allocate blocks are enabled in direct I/O now.

This patch (of 9):

Prepare some interfaces which will be used in append O_DIRECT write.

Signed-off-by: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@huawei.com>
Cc: Weiwei Wang <wangww631@huawei.com>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Xuejiufei <xuejiufei@huawei.com>
Cc: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@oracle.com>
Cc: alex chen <alex.chen@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/ocfs2/file.c
fs/ocfs2/file.h