From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Wilcox Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 00/20] DAX: Page cache bypass for filesystems on memory storage Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 09:47:57 -0500 Message-ID: <20150112144757.GE5661@wil.cx> References: <1414185652-28663-1-git-send-email-matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com> <20141210140347.GA23252@infradead.org> <20141210141211.GD2220@wil.cx> <20150105184143.GA665@infradead.org> <20150106004714.6d63023c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Matthew Wilcox , Matthew Wilcox , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Linus Torvalds , Milosz Tanski To: Andrew Morton Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150106004714.6d63023c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 12:47:14AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 5 Jan 2015 10:41:43 -0800 Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 09:12:11AM -0500, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 06:03:47AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > > What is the status of this patch set? > > > > > > I have no outstanding bug reports against it. Linus told me that he > > > wants to see it come through Andrew's tree. I have an email two weeks > > > ago from Andrew saying that it's on his list. I would love to see it > > > merged since it's almost a year old at this point. > > > > And since then another month and aother merge window has passed. Is > > there any way to speed up merging big patch sets like this one? > > I took a look at dax last time and found it to be unreviewable due to > lack of design description, objectives and code comments. Hopefully > that's been addressed - I should get back to it fairly soon as I chew > through merge window and holiday backlog. Now that Jens has merged patches 1 and 2 into his block tree, you don't need to spend any time looking at those. If I could trouble you to merge patches 3 & 4 through mm, the rest of the patches are VFS/ext2, and maye we could merge those through Al's tree instead of taking your valuable time?