Re: [PATCH] fix readahead pipeline break caused by block plug

[Wu Fengguang]

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 06:34:52AM -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 06:57:54PM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> > The problem is, there are a dozen of ->direct_IO callback functions.
> > While there are only two ->direct_IO() callers, one for READ and
> > another for WRITE, which are much easier to deal with.
> 
> So what?  Better do a bit more work now and keep the damn thing
> maintainable.

What if we add a wrapper function for doing

        blk_start_plug(&plug);
        ->direct_IO()
        blk_finish_plug(&plug);

Thanks,
Fengguang
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