Re: [PATCH v5 08/12] ext4: update direct I/O read to do trylock in IOCB_NOWAIT cases

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On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 03:48:17PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Mon 21-10-19 20:18:46, Matthew Bobrowski wrote:
> > This patch updates the lock pattern in ext4_dio_read_iter() to only
> > perform the trylock in IOCB_NOWAIT cases.
> 
> The changelog is actually misleading. It should say something like "This
> patch updates the lock pattern in ext4_dio_read_iter() to not block on
> inode lock in case of IOCB_NOWAIT direct IO reads."
> 
> Also to ease backporting of easy fixes, we try to put patches like this
> early in the series (fixing code in ext4_direct_IO_read(), and then the
> fixed code would just carry over to ext4_dio_read_iter()).

OK, understood. Now I know this for next time. :)

Providing that I have this patch precede the ext4_dio_read_iter()
patch and implement this lock pattern in ext4_direct_IO_read(), am I
OK to add the 'Reviewed-by' tag?

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