Re: [PATCH 1/4] fs: replace FOP_DIO_PARALLEL_WRITE with a fmode bits
From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Wed Nov 05 2025 - 09:04:16 EST
On Tue, Nov 04, 2025 at 12:30:06PM +0530, Nirjhar Roy (IBM) wrote:
> On Wed, 2025-10-29 at 08:15 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > To properly handle the direct to buffered I/O fallback for devices that
> > require stable writes, we need to be able to set the DIO_PARALLEL_WRITE
> > on a per-file basis and no statically for a given file_operations
> > instance.
> So, is the fallback configurable(like we can turn it on/off)? Looking at
> the code it seems like it is not. Any reason for not making it
> configurable?
Please read the cover letter.