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Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 11:50:01 -0600
From: Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@oracle.com>
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To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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        Zach Brown <zab@zabbo.net>,
        "Maxim V. Patlasov" <mpatlasov@parallels.com>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
        Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>,
        linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 23/31] nfs: simplify swap
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On 11/23/2012 02:21 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 04:41:03PM -0600, Dave Kleikamp wrote:
>> swap_writepage can now call nfs's write_iter f_op, eliminating the need to
>> implement for the special-case direct_IO a_op. There is no longer a need to
>> pass the uio flag through the direct write path.
> 
> This should also kill off the nasty REQ_KERNEL flag.

Right. Missed that.

Shaggy