From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-nvdimm@ml01.01.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/10] dax: provide an iomap based fault handler
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 02:08:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160926000805.GA32252@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160923210237.GA23346@linux.intel.com>
On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 03:02:37PM -0600, Ross Zwisler wrote:
> I can just add a hack to hop over the writeback in generic_file_read_iter(),
> but I hesitate to do this because it seems like the correct thing to do is to
> separate the ext4 DAX & DIO paths, which I think you are already doing.
I've started on it, and the read path works fine. I'm a bit stuck on
the write side as my attempts at it seems to corrupt data fairly easily
when running xfstests.
> I believe that my DAX PMD patches are ready to go, but because of this issue
> they currently only support XFS. I'm tempted to send them out as they are
> right now since they add a bunch of complexity to DAX that we need to review,
> and that review can fully happen with only XFS support. We can add ext4
> support back in later when it's ready.
Yes, please send them out. We really should move ext4 over to iomap for
DAX. I'd love to get some help from someone more familar with ext4,
and can send my code dump to get started.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-26 0:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-09 16:34 iomap based DAX path Christoph Hellwig
2016-09-09 16:34 ` [PATCH 01/10] iomap: add IOMAP_F_NEW flag Christoph Hellwig
2016-09-13 22:43 ` Ross Zwisler
2016-09-14 7:08 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-09-09 16:34 ` [PATCH 02/10] iomap: expose iomap_apply outside iomap.c Christoph Hellwig
2016-09-13 22:48 ` Ross Zwisler
2016-09-09 16:34 ` [PATCH 03/10] dax: don't pass buffer_head to dax_insert_mapping Christoph Hellwig
2016-09-13 22:53 ` Ross Zwisler
2016-09-09 16:34 ` [PATCH 04/10] dax: don't pass buffer_head to copy_user_dax Christoph Hellwig
2016-09-13 22:54 ` Ross Zwisler
2016-09-09 16:34 ` [PATCH 05/10] dax: provide an iomap based dax read/write path Christoph Hellwig
2016-09-13 23:00 ` Ross Zwisler
2016-09-09 16:34 ` [PATCH 06/10] dax: provide an iomap based fault handler Christoph Hellwig
2016-09-09 22:55 ` Dave Chinner
2016-09-10 7:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-09-13 15:51 ` Ross Zwisler
2016-09-14 7:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-09-14 9:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-09-23 21:02 ` Ross Zwisler
2016-09-26 0:08 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2016-09-26 14:28 ` Jan Kara
2016-09-10 1:38 ` Elliott, Robert (Persistent Memory)
2016-09-13 23:10 ` Ross Zwisler
2016-09-14 7:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-09-14 17:07 ` Ross Zwisler
2016-09-15 5:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-09-15 5:30 ` Darrick J. Wong
2016-09-26 0:05 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-09-09 16:34 ` [PATCH 07/10] xfs: fix locking for DAX writes Christoph Hellwig
2016-09-09 16:34 ` [PATCH 08/10] xfs: take the ilock shared if possible in xfs_file_iomap_begin Christoph Hellwig
2016-09-09 16:34 ` [PATCH 09/10] xfs: refactor xfs_setfilesize Christoph Hellwig
2016-09-13 23:12 ` Ross Zwisler
2016-09-09 16:34 ` [PATCH 10/10] xfs: use iomap to implement DAX Christoph Hellwig
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