Re: [PATCH] Filesystem aio rdwr patchset

From: Benjamin LaHaise (bcrl@redhat.com)
Date: Tue Apr 01 2003 - 15:27:13 EST


On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 09:59:57PM +0530, Suparna Bhattacharya wrote:
> I would really appreciate comments and review feedback
> from the perspective of fs developers especially on
> the latter 2 patches in terms of whether this seems a
> sound approach or if I'm missing something very crucial
> (which I just well might be)
> Is this easy to do for other filesystems as well ?

I disagree with putting the iocb pointer in the task_struct: it feels
completely bogus as it modifies semantics behind the scenes without
fixing APIs.

                -ben

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