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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Cc: dan.j.williams@intel.com, linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org,
	zwisler@kernel.org, vishal.l.verma@intel.com,
	xfs <linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] pmem: advertise page alignment for pmem devices supporting fsdax
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2019 10:11:36 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190222231136.GC23020@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190222182008.GT6503@magnolia>

On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 10:20:08AM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> Uh, we have an internal customer <cough> who's been trying out MAP_SYNC
> on pmem, and they've observed that one has to do a fair amount of
> legwork (in the form of mkfs.xfs parameters) to get the kernel to set up
> 2M PMD mappings.  They (of course) want to mmap hundreds of GB of pmem,
> so the PMD mappings are much more efficient.
> 
> I started poking around w.r.t. what mkfs.xfs was doing and realized that
> if the fsdax pmem device advertised iomin/ioopt of 2MB, then mkfs will
> set up all the parameters automatically.  Below is my ham-handed attempt
> to teach the kernel to do this.

What's the before and after mkfs output?

(need to see the context that this "fixes" before I comment)

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-02-22 23:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-22 18:20 [RFC PATCH] pmem: advertise page alignment for pmem devices supporting fsdax Darrick J. Wong
2019-02-22 18:28 ` Dan Williams
2019-02-22 18:45   ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-02-22 23:30     ` Dave Chinner
2019-02-23  0:46       ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-02-22 23:11 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2019-02-22 23:28   ` Darrick J. Wong

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