From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from ipmail06.adl6.internode.on.net ([150.101.137.145]:23837 "EHLO ipmail06.adl6.internode.on.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754750AbcKBWX6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Nov 2016 18:23:58 -0400 Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 09:23:55 +1100 From: Dave Chinner To: Theodore Ts'o Cc: Jan Kara , Ross Zwisler , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-nvdimm@ml01.01.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/11] ext4: Convert ext4 DAX IO to iomap framework Message-ID: <20161102222355.GI14023@dastard> References: <1478034381-19037-1-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> <20161101221235.GB9920@dastard> <20161101224550.GA2314@linux.intel.com> <20161101230903.GA20418@quack2.suse.cz> <20161102130353.nt3oqodrik4hnfk6@thunk.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20161102130353.nt3oqodrik4hnfk6@thunk.org> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Nov 02, 2016 at 09:03:53AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Wed, Nov 02, 2016 at 12:09:03AM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > > > > I plan to grab Ross's PMD series in the next couple of days and I'll > > > > push it out as a stable topic branch once I've sanity tested it. I > > > > don't really want to take a big chunk of ext4 stuff through the XFS > > > > tree if it can be avoided.... > > > > > > Yea, we also need to figure out how to get Jan's "dax: Clear dirty bits after > > > flushing caches" set merged, which is mostly MM stuff and I think will go > > > through akpm's tree? That set is also based on my PMD stuff. > > > > Yeah, I've spoken to Andrew and he wants to take the MM changes through his > > tree. I'll talk to him how to make this happen given the patches the series > > depends on but the series still needs some review so "how to merge" is not > > exactly a question of the day... > > I assume there isn't a convenient git tree I can pull for the purposes > of testing Jan's patch series and for the purposes of seeing how > everything fits together? I think Jan posted a test branch with all the current stuff under review in it here: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs.git dax > In other words, as far as I understand > things there currently isn't an unstable topic branch I can pull for > the purposes of review and testing, but hopefully Dave will make a > stable topic branch in a few days. Is that right? I've got the dax-pmd topic branch running regression tests right now. I'm hoping that all goes well and if it does I'll get it out by the end of the day. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com