Re: [PATCH 2/5] iomap: use accelerated zeroing on a block device to zero a file range

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On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 06:30:55PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> From: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Create a function that ensures that the storage backing part of a file
> contains zeroes and will not trip over old media errors if the contents
> are re-read.

I don't think this has anything to do with direct I/O, so I'd rather
not have it clutter direct-io.c.  Also do we really want to wait
synchronously for every bio instead of batching them up?  Especially
as a simple bio_chain is probably all that is needed.



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