On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 06:03:09AM +0000, Long Li wrote: > I also want to point out that, I choose to implement .read_iter and > .write_iter from file_operations to implement direct I/O (CIFS is already > doing this for O_DIRECT, so following this code path will avoid a big mess > up). The ideal choice is to implement .direct_IO from > address_space_operations that I think eventually we want to move to.
No, the direct_IO address space operation is the mess. We're moving away from it.