Re: [PATCH v13 0/7] fsdax: introduce fs query to support reflink

Dave Chinner
2022-04-21T07:47:01Z

On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 10:54:59PM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 02:35:02PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > Sure, I'm not a maintainer and just the stand-in patch shepherd for
> > a single release. However, being unable to cleanly merge code we
> > need integrated into our local subsystem tree for integration
> > testing because a patch dependency with another subsystem won't gain
> > a stable commit ID until the next merge window is .... distinctly
> > suboptimal.
>
> Yes. Which is why we've taken a lot of mm patchs through other trees,
> sometimes specilly crafted for that. So I guess in this case we'll
> just need to take non-trivial dependencies into the XFS tree, and just
> deal with small merge conflicts for the trivial ones.

OK. As Naoyo has pointed out, the first dependency/conflict Ruan has
listed looks trivial to resolve.

The second dependency, OTOH, is on a new function added in the patch
pointed to. That said, at first glance it looks to be independent of
the first two patches in that series so I might just be able to pull
that one patch in and have that leave us with a working
fsdax+reflink tree.

Regardless, I'll wait to see how much work the updated XFS/DAX
reflink enablement patchset still requires when Ruan posts it before
deciding what to do here. If it isn't going to be a merge
candidate, what to do with this patchset is moot because there's
little to test without reflink enabled...

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
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