drivers/block/loop.c | 55 ++++++++++++++++++- fs/ext3/file.c | 2 + fs/ext3/inode.c | 149 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------- include/linux/loop.h | 1 + 4 files changed, 160 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-)
It looks like the patch that teaches loop to use the kernel aio interface got combined with the patch that adds the _bvec entry points to ext3.
+ if (file->f_op->write_iter&& file->f_op->read_iter) { + file->f_flags |= O_DIRECT; + lo_flags |= LO_FLAGS_USE_AIO; + }
This manual setting of f_flags still looks very fishy to me. I remember finding that pattern somewhere else but that's not very comforting :). - z -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html