Re: [PATCH 0/3] support appending AIO writes

[Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 10:57:28PM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 09:29:01AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > The patches look sane. Does the dio change conflict with the
> > work Al is doing right now of the direct IO path, or will
> > marshalling that part of the change through the XFS tree be fine?
> 
> I've not seen any changes in that area in Al's trees.  That being said
> I don't think this little flag should cause any major problems as we'll
> have to pass the flags argument in some form of direct I/O method for
> all the other quirks we have.

Shouldn't be a problem; there might be textual conflicts, but seeing that
XFS tree is much less likely to be rebased, I can just pull from it once
it gets to those.