Re: [RFC PATCH] afs: Stop implementing ->writepage()

From: David Howells
Date: Mon Nov 21 2022 - 03:30:20 EST


Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote:

> > (1) afs_write_back_from_locked_folio() could be called directly rather
> > than calling filemap_fdatawrite_wbc(), but that would avoid the
> > control group stuff that wbc_attach_and_unlock_inode() and co. seem to
> > do. Do I actually need to do this?
>
> That would be much preferred over the for_write_begin hack, given that
> write_begin really isn't a well defined method but a hacky hook for
> legacy write implementations.

So I don't need to worry about the control group stuff? I'll still need some
way to flush a conflicting write whatever mechanism is being used to write to
the page cache.

David