Re: [patch 0/3] add perform_write to a_ops

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On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 06:04:10PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> a_ops->perform_write() was left out from Nick Piggin's new a_ops
> patchset, as it was non-essential, and postponed for later inclusion.
> 
> This short series reintroduces it, but only adds the fuse
> implementation and not simple_perform_write(), which I'm not sure
> would be a significant improvement.
> 
> This allows larger than 4k buffered writes for fuse, which is one of
> the most requested features.
> 
> This goes on top of the "fuse: writable mmap" patches.

Please don't do this, but rather implement your own .aio_write.  There's
very little in generic_file_aio_write that wouldn't be handle by
->perform_write and we should rather factor those up or move to higher
layers than adding this ill-defined abstraction.

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