Re: [RFC PATCH 01/35] vfs: clean up dedup

From: Miklos Szeredi
Date: Thu Apr 12 2018 - 13:24:06 EST


On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 6:25 PM, Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 05:07:52PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
>> +ssize_t vfs_dedupe_file_range_one(struct file *src_file, u64 src_pos, u64 len,
>> + struct file *dst_file, u64 dst_pos)
>
> Why u64 instead of loff_t?

Peculiarity of f_op->dedupe_file_range().

I think a cleanup of copyfile/clone/dedupe interfaces would be good.
Perhaps merge them into one? Or just merge copyfile/clone? Even if
not merging it should make sense to make argument types and argument
order the same.

Thanks,
Miklos