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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
	Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
	"Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list@gmail.com>,
	linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Darrick J . Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>,
	Aravinda Herle <araherle@in.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 2/2] iomap: Support subpage size dirty tracking to improve write performance
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2022 00:30:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y2S/q11ijXEqr8ue@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7699.1667487070@warthog.procyon.org.uk>

On Thu, Nov 03, 2022 at 02:51:10PM +0000, David Howells wrote:
> > > filesystems right now.  Dave Howells' netfs infrastructure is trying
> > > to solve the problem for everyone (and he's been looking at iomap as
> > > inspiration for what he's doing).
> > 
> > Btw, I never understod why the network file systems don't just use
> > iomap.  There is nothing block specific in the core iomap code.
> 
> It calls creates and submits bio structs all over the place.  This seems to
> require a blockdev.

The core iomap code (fs/iomap/iter.c) does not.  Most users of it
are block device centric right now, but for example the dax.c uses
iomap for byte level DAX accesses without ever looking at a bdev,
and seek.c and fiemap.c do not make any assumptions on the backend
implementation.

  reply	other threads:[~2022-11-04  7:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-28  4:30 [RFC 0/2] iomap: Add support for subpage dirty state tracking to improve write performance Ritesh Harjani (IBM)
2022-10-28  4:30 ` [RFC 1/2] iomap: Change uptodate variable name to state Ritesh Harjani (IBM)
2022-10-28 16:31   ` Darrick J. Wong
2022-10-29  3:09     ` Ritesh Harjani (IBM)
2022-10-28  4:30 ` [RFC 2/2] iomap: Support subpage size dirty tracking to improve write performance Ritesh Harjani (IBM)
2022-10-28 12:42   ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-10-29  3:05     ` Ritesh Harjani (IBM)
2022-10-28 17:01   ` Darrick J. Wong
2022-10-28 18:15     ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-10-29  3:25     ` Ritesh Harjani (IBM)
2022-10-28 21:04   ` Dave Chinner
2022-10-30  3:27     ` Ritesh Harjani (IBM)
2022-10-30 22:31       ` Dave Chinner
2022-10-31  3:43     ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-10-31  7:08       ` Dave Chinner
2022-10-31 10:27         ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-11-02  8:57           ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-11-03  0:38             ` Dave Chinner
2022-11-02  9:03       ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-11-02 17:35         ` Darrick J. Wong
2022-11-04  7:27           ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-11-04 14:15             ` Ritesh Harjani (IBM)
2022-11-03 14:51       ` David Howells
2022-11-04  7:30         ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2022-11-07 13:03         ` David Howells
2022-11-04 11:28       ` Ritesh Harjani (IBM)
2022-11-03 14:12     ` David Howells

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