Re: [PATCH] ext4: flag as supporting buffered async reads

From: Theodore Y. Ts'o
Date: Tue Aug 18 2020 - 14:11:25 EST


On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 05:02:11PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> ext4 uses generic_file_read_iter(), which already supports this.
>
> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
>
> Resending this one, as I've been carrying it privately since May. The
> necessary bits are now upstream (and XFS/btrfs equiv changes as well),
> please consider this one for 5.9. Thanks!

The necessary commit only hit upstream as of 5.9-rc1, unless I'm
missing something? It's on my queue to send to Linus once I get my
(late) ext4 primary pull request for 5.9.

- Ted