On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 05:00:32AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 09:03:44PM +1000, Matthew Bobrowski wrote:
> > +static bool ext4_dio_checks(struct inode *inode)
> > +{
> > +#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_FS_ENCRYPTION)
> > + if (IS_ENCRYPTED(inode))
> > + return false;
> > +#endif
> > + if (ext4_should_journal_data(inode))
> > + return false;
> > + if (ext4_has_inline_data(inode))
> > + return false;
> > + return true;
>
> Shouldn't this function be called ext4_dio_supported or similar?
Yeah, let's run with your suggestion. I think 'ext4_dio_supported' reads far
better than what I've named this helper.
> Also bonus points of adding a patch that defines a IS_ENCRYPTED stub
> for !CONFIG_FS_ENCRYPTION to make this a little cleaner.
I like this idea and I will try to do this.
> Also the iomap direct I/O code supports inline data, so the above
> might not be required (at least with small updates elsewhere).
I did see this, but to be perfectly honest I haven't looked at what needs to
be done on the ext4 side of things to get it all plumbed up and working. I
wanted to get clear of these main bits and revisit after the fact within a
separate patch series.
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