From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [198.137.202.133]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3E72EC3DA6E for ; Fri, 5 Jan 2024 06:10:30 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=lists.infradead.org; s=bombadil.20210309; h=Sender: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:List-Subscribe:List-Help:List-Post: List-Archive:List-Unsubscribe:List-Id:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:References: Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:Reply-To:Content-ID:Content-Description: Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID: List-Owner; bh=z2Mg2zAOhfat2hWjo1ysJsStrlhZfQb8YhvNAvm9BqE=; b=fs6FAdc3NO0J8E SjD8TlU1rxHOnsrcsvVRYvN0DlMvSgNPh8ShKAZN28Iv0z+jz54ZANZCNkojNQB9If8qP20G79DUN 19Tc2nJq0575ZeptV60x3DdwVFTq3n3VBeQXilz76U/mJs8ehqyZfTZsLuAPe3bc4LQJZkniQeRrn 4MsjqIVvQ5KBk1a4ADFaaFLC/WfGNTopPVKzU+dDxLjRw0eTKUb5/wH0dz0uGq931BBkoyKlv/eWF hRgjZlBkx09BEJQ8AMw9fh22tW8l6XPEYgQxCS7STh0/I29FZ4pm7r38ACif1jzZUTMStRj70lzXq wxGtXB7n9X90K78zhacg==; Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=bombadil.infradead.org) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.96 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1rLdPS-00G2Yp-1M; Fri, 05 Jan 2024 06:10:22 +0000 Received: from hch by bombadil.infradead.org with local (Exim 4.96 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1rLdPN-00G2Yc-1R; Fri, 05 Jan 2024 06:10:17 +0000 Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2024 22:10:17 -0800 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Jan Kara Cc: Yu Kuai , axboe@kernel.dk, roger.pau@citrix.com, colyli@suse.de, kent.overstreet@gmail.com, joern@lazybastard.org, miquel.raynal@bootlin.com, richard@nod.at, vigneshr@ti.com, sth@linux.ibm.com, hoeppner@linux.ibm.com, hca@linux.ibm.com, gor@linux.ibm.com, agordeev@linux.ibm.com, jejb@linux.ibm.com, martin.petersen@oracle.com, clm@fb.com, josef@toxicpanda.com, dsterba@suse.com, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, brauner@kernel.org, nico@fluxnic.net, xiang@kernel.org, chao@kernel.org, tytso@mit.edu, adilger.kernel@dilger.ca, jack@suse.com, konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com, willy@infradead.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, hare@suse.de, p.raghav@samsung.com, linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-bcachefs@vger.kernel.org, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-erofs@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-nilfs@vger.kernel.org, yukuai3@huawei.com, yi.zhang@huawei.com, yangerkun@huawei.com Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v3 for-6.8/block 04/17] mtd: block2mtd: use bdev apis Message-ID: References: <20231221085712.1766333-1-yukuai1@huaweicloud.com> <20231221085712.1766333-5-yukuai1@huaweicloud.com> <20240104112855.uci45hhqaiitmsir@quack3> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20240104112855.uci45hhqaiitmsir@quack3> X-BeenThere: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "linux-mtd" Errors-To: linux-mtd-bounces+linux-mtd=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org On Thu, Jan 04, 2024 at 12:28:55PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > What do you think? Because when we are working with the folios it is rather > natural to use their mapping for dirty balancing? The real problem is that block2mtd pokes way to deep into block internals. I think the saviour here is Christians series to replace the bdev handle with a struct file, which will allow to use the normal file write path here and get rid of the entire layering volation. ______________________________________________________ Linux MTD discussion mailing list http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-mtd/