[PATCH 2/3] ext4: honor the O_SYNC flag for aysnchronous direct I/O requests

[Jan Kara]

On Mon 06-02-12 11:20:29, Jeff Moyer wrote:
> Jan Kara <jack at suse.cz> writes:
> 
> >> +	/* workqueue for aio+dio+o_sync disk cache flushing */
> >> +	struct workqueue_struct *aio_dio_flush_wq;
> >> +
> >   Hmm, looking at the patch I'm wondering why did you introduce the new
> > workqueue? It seems dio_unwritten_wq would be enough? You just need to
> > rename it to something more appropriate ;)
> 
> I used a new workqueue as the operations are blocking, and I didn't want
> to hold up other progress.  If you think re-using the unwritten_wq is
> the right thing to do, I'm happy to comply.
  Ah, ok. Thinking about it, it's probably better to use a separate work
queue then.

								Honza

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Jan Kara <jack at suse.cz>
SUSE Labs, CR