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From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
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On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 01:35:23PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I'm inclined to apply the first two patches as infrastructure, since they 
> seem to make sense regardless of data=ordered. The ability to get a 
> callback when IO ends sounds like something that a number of cases might 
> find intriguing, and it's obviously how the actual IO has worked 
> internally anyway.

The first two patches look good to me.  I haven't had time to go
through the last patch carefully (and that's the most complicated one
of course).  They don't currently have any in-kernel users, so it
fails the traditional test for inclusion, but the basic functionality
they provide makes a lot of sense to me.

					- Ted
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