Re: [PATCH 05/18] [PATCH] BLOCK: Don't call block_sync_page() from AFS [try #4]

Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]> wrote:

> AFS never sets a backing_dev_info on it's own and thus uses
> &default_backing_dev_info which sets the unplug_io_fn to
> default_unplug_io_fn.  default_unplug_io_fn is a no-op, and thus
> block_sync_page does nothing for AFS.

I'm sure I used to require this for when there was a local cache on disk.
Maybe things have changed, or maybe I'm misremembering.

David
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References:
- Re: [PATCH 05/18] [PATCH] BLOCK: Don't call block_sync_page() from AFS [try #4]
  - From: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
- [PATCH 00/18] BLOCK: Permit block layer to be disabled [try #4]
  - From: David Howells <[email protected]>
- [PATCH 05/18] [PATCH] BLOCK: Don't call block_sync_page() from AFS [try #4]
  - From: David Howells <[email protected]>
- Re: [PATCH 05/18] [PATCH] BLOCK: Don't call block_sync_page() from AFS [try #4]
  - From: Chris Wedgwood <[email protected]>

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