Re: [PATCH 1/2] fs: introduce APIs to enable sending write-hint with buffer-head

[Kanchan Joshi <joshi.k@samsung.com>]

Thank you for review and suggestion.
I will make that change in V2, once things become clear for second patch
of this set.

On Monday 10 December 2018 07:19 PM, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Mon 10-12-18 18:20:03, Kanchan Joshi wrote:
>> submit_bh and write_dirty_buffer do not take write-hint as
>> parameter. This patch introduces variants which do.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Kanchan Joshi <joshi.k@samsung.com>
> 
> ...
> 
>> @@ -3162,6 +3169,20 @@ void write_dirty_buffer(struct buffer_head *bh, int op_flags)
>>   }
>>   EXPORT_SYMBOL(write_dirty_buffer);
>>   
>> +void write_dirty_buffer_write_hint(struct buffer_head *bh, int op_flags,
>> +				   enum rw_hint hint)
>> +{
>> +	lock_buffer(bh);
>> +	if (!test_clear_buffer_dirty(bh)) {
>> +		unlock_buffer(bh);
>> +		return;
>> +	}
>> +	bh->b_end_io = end_buffer_write_sync;
>> +	get_bh(bh);
>> +	submit_bh_wbc(REQ_OP_WRITE, op_flags, bh, hint, NULL);
>> +}
>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(write_dirty_buffer_write_hint);
>> +
> 
> Please implement write_dirty_buffer() as a call to
> write_dirty_buffer_write_hint() so that we don't unnecessarily duplicate
> the code. Otherwise the patch looks good.
> 
> 								Honza
>