Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] ext4: Pass in DIO_SKIP_DIO_COUNT flag if inode_dio_begin() called

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 02:15:24PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
> On 04/20/2016 04:58 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >FYI, none of the Dax code even needs to ever touch the dio_count,
> >as dax I/O can't be asynchronous, and we thus don't need it to protect
> >against truncate.  I'd suggest to remove it and then end_io callback
> >from the DAX code entirely as a start and then move from there.
> 
> Yes, it seems like we may not need to change the dio_count in dax_do_io()
> after all. BTW, what do mean by using end_io callback as a start?

I mean to remove both the i_dio_count manipulation, and the unessecary
end_io callback from dax_do_io.