Re: [PATCH v7 0/6] block: Introduce REQ_ALLOCATE flag for REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROES

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Thu Mar 19 2020 - 06:28:53 EST


On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 04:08:58PM +0300, Kirill Tkhai wrote:
> I just don't understand the reason nothing happens :(
> I see newly-sent patches comes fast into block tree.
> But there is only silence... I grepped over Documentation,
> and there is no special rules about block tree. So,
> it looks like standard rules should be applyable.
>
> Some comments? Some requests for reworking? Some personal reasons to ignore my patches?

I'm still completely opposed to the magic overloading using a flag.
That is just a bad design waiting for trouble to happen.