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From: "Verma, Vishal L" <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
To: "hch@lst.de" <hch@lst.de>, "xfs@oss.sgi.com" <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Cc: "rpeterso@redhat.com" <rpeterso@redhat.com>,
	"linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: iomap infrastructure and multipage writes V4
Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 22:42:37 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1463006545.29294.32.camel@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1462783638-4968-1-git-send-email-hch@lst.de>

On Mon, 2016-05-09 at 10:47 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> This series add a new file system I/O path that uses the iomap
> structure
> introduced for the pNFS support and support multi-page buffered
> writes.
> 
> This was first started by Dave Chinner a long time ago, then I did
> beat
> it into shape for production runs in a very constrained ARM NAS
> enviroment for Tuxera almost as long ago, and now half a dozen
> rewrites
> later it's back.
> 
> The basic idea is to avoid the per-block get_blocks overhead
> and make use of extents in the buffered write path by iterating over
> them instead.
> 
> Note that patch 1 conflicts with Vishals dax error handling series.
> It would be great to have a stable branch with it so that both the
> XFS and nvdimm tree could pull it in before the other changes in this
> area.

I'm looking to post a stable branch with my patches soon. My patches
depend on Jan's fixes for ext4 and DAX, and as soon as they land in a
stable ext4 branch, I'll create one for dax error handling. In the
meanwhile, v7 of my patches includes your patch 1 updated for the error
handling series.

> 
> Changes since V3:
>  - fix DAX based zeroing
>  - Reviews and trivial fixes from Bob
> 
> Changes since V2:
>  - fix the range for delalloc punches after failed writes
>  - updated some changelogs
> 
> Chances since V1:
>  - add support for fiemap
>  - fix a test fail on 1k block sizes
>  - prepare for 64-bit length, this will be used in a follow on
> patchset
> 

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-05-11 22:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-09  8:47 iomap infrastructure and multipage writes V4 Christoph Hellwig
2016-05-09  8:47 ` [PATCH 01/15] dax: export a low-level __dax_zero_page_range helper Christoph Hellwig
2016-05-11 22:43   ` Verma, Vishal L
2016-05-09  8:47 ` [PATCH 02/15] fs: move struct iomap from exportfs.h to a separate header Christoph Hellwig
2016-05-09  8:47 ` [PATCH 03/15] fs: introduce iomap infrastructure Christoph Hellwig
2016-05-09  8:47 ` [PATCH 04/15] fs: support DAX based iomap zeroing Christoph Hellwig
2016-05-09  8:47 ` [PATCH 05/15] xfs: make xfs_bmbt_to_iomap available outside of xfs_pnfs.c Christoph Hellwig
2016-05-09  8:47 ` [PATCH 06/15] xfs: reorder zeroing and flushing sequence in truncate Christoph Hellwig
2016-05-09  8:47 ` [PATCH 07/15] xfs: implement iomap based buffered write path Christoph Hellwig
2016-05-09  8:47 ` [PATCH 08/15] xfs: remove buffered write support from __xfs_get_blocks Christoph Hellwig
2016-05-09  8:47 ` [PATCH 09/15] fs: iomap based fiemap implementation Christoph Hellwig
2016-05-23 20:09   ` Bob Peterson
2016-05-24 13:10     ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-05-26 18:19       ` Bob Peterson
2016-05-26 22:57         ` Dave Chinner
2016-05-09  8:47 ` [PATCH 10/15] xfs: use iomap " Christoph Hellwig
2016-05-09  8:47 ` [PATCH 11/15] xfs: use iomap infrastructure for DAX zeroing Christoph Hellwig
2016-05-09  8:47 ` [PATCH 12/15] xfs: handle 64-bit length in xfs_iozero Christoph Hellwig
2016-05-09  8:47 ` [PATCH 13/15] xfs: use xfs_zero_range in xfs_zero_eof Christoph Hellwig
2016-05-09  8:47 ` [PATCH 14/15] xfs: split xfs_free_file_space in manageable pieces Christoph Hellwig
2016-05-09  8:47 ` [PATCH 15/15] xfs: kill xfs_zero_remaining_bytes Christoph Hellwig
2016-05-11 22:42 ` Verma, Vishal L [this message]
2016-06-01  6:35 ` iomap infrastructure and multipage writes V4 Dave Chinner
2016-06-01 12:31   ` Christoph Hellwig

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