From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
To: "Verma, Vishal L" <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Cc: "Williams, Dan J" <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] dax: use sb_issue_zerout instead of calling dax_clear_sectors
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 09:49:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160330074926.GC12776@quack.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1459277829.6412.3.camel@intel.com>
On Tue 29-03-16 18:57:16, Verma, Vishal L wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-03-28 at 16:34 -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
>
> <>
>
> > Seems kind of sad to fail the fault due to a bad block when we were
> > going to zero it anyway, right?��I'm not seeing a compelling reason to
> > keep any zeroing in fs/dax.c.
>
> Agreed - but how do we do this? clear_pmem needs to be able to clear an
> arbitrary number of bytes, but to go through the driver, we'd need to
> send down a bio? If only the driver had an rw_bytes like interface that
> could be used by anyone... :)
Actually, my patches for page fault locking remove zeroing from
dax_insert_mapping() and __dax_pmd_fault() - the zeroing now happens from
the filesystem only and the zeroing in those two functions is just a dead
code...
Honza
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Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-24 23:17 [PATCH 0/5] dax: handling of media errors Vishal Verma
2016-03-24 23:17 ` [PATCH 1/5] block, dax: pass blk_dax_ctl through to drivers Vishal Verma
2016-03-24 23:17 ` [PATCH 2/5] dax: fallback from pmd to pte on error Vishal Verma
2016-03-24 23:17 ` [PATCH 3/5] dax: enable dax in the presence of known media errors (badblocks) Vishal Verma
2016-03-24 23:23 ` Verma, Vishal L
2016-03-24 23:17 ` [PATCH 4/5] dax: use sb_issue_zerout instead of calling dax_clear_sectors Vishal Verma
2016-03-25 10:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-03-25 21:01 ` Verma, Vishal L
2016-03-25 18:47 ` Dan Williams
2016-03-25 21:03 ` Verma, Vishal L
2016-03-25 21:20 ` Dan Williams
2016-03-28 20:01 ` Verma, Vishal L
2016-03-28 23:34 ` Dan Williams
2016-03-29 18:57 ` Verma, Vishal L
2016-03-29 19:37 ` Dan Williams
2016-03-30 7:49 ` Jan Kara [this message]
2016-04-01 19:17 ` Verma, Vishal L
2016-04-04 12:09 ` Jan Kara
2016-03-24 23:17 ` [PATCH 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io Vishal Verma
2016-03-25 10:45 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-03-25 20:59 ` Verma, Vishal L
2016-03-25 21:42 ` Dan Williams
2016-03-25 22:36 ` Verma, Vishal L
2016-03-26 16:53 ` hch
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