XFS can easily support appending aio writes by ensuring we always allocate
blocks as unwritten extents when performing direct I/O writes and only
converting them to written extents at I/O completion.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
---
fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c
index a267394..a4278e4 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c
@@ -1441,7 +1441,8 @@ xfs_vm_direct_IO(
ret = __blockdev_direct_IO(rw, iocb, inode, bdev, iov,
offset, nr_segs,
xfs_get_blocks_direct,
- xfs_end_io_direct_write, NULL, 0);
+ xfs_end_io_direct_write, NULL,
+ DIO_ASYNC_EXTEND);
if (ret != -EIOCBQUEUED && iocb->private)
goto out_destroy_ioend;
} else {
--
1.7.10.4
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