From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>,
Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>,
"linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org" <linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org>,
linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 13/17] fs: update mount_bdev() to lookup dax infrastructure
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2017 09:08:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170201080838.GC29170@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPcyv4imiVCvtKbXJeK5_BhPhd-Gnr9nOz-ML6TKfVSQ9Rr3Cg@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 10:29:12AM -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 4:26 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 12:37:14AM -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
> >> This is in preparation for removing the ->direct_access() method from
> >> block_device_operations.
> >
> > I don't think mount_bdev has any business knowing about DAX.
> > Just call dax_get_by_host manually from the affected file systems for
> > now, and in the future we can have a pure-DAX mount_dax helper.
>
> Ok, since we already need dax_get_by_host() in the blkdev_writepages()
> path I can sprinkle a few more of those calls and leave mount_bdev
> alone.
Huh? I thought we stopped using DAX I/O for the block device nodes
a while ago?
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Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-28 8:36 [RFC PATCH 00/17] introduce a dax_inode for dax_operations Dan Williams
2017-01-28 8:36 ` [RFC PATCH 01/17] dax: refactor dax-fs into a generic provider of dax inodes Dan Williams
2017-01-30 12:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-30 17:12 ` Dan Williams
2017-01-28 8:36 ` [RFC PATCH 02/17] dax: convert dax_inode locking to srcu Dan Williams
2017-01-28 8:36 ` [RFC PATCH 03/17] dax: add a facility to lookup a dax inode by 'host' device name Dan Williams
2017-01-28 8:36 ` [RFC PATCH 04/17] dax: introduce dax_operations Dan Williams
2017-01-28 8:36 ` [RFC PATCH 05/17] pmem: add dax_operations support Dan Williams
2017-01-28 8:36 ` [RFC PATCH 06/17] axon_ram: " Dan Williams
2017-01-28 8:36 ` [RFC PATCH 07/17] brd: " Dan Williams
2017-01-28 8:36 ` [RFC PATCH 08/17] dcssblk: " Dan Williams
2017-01-28 8:36 ` [RFC PATCH 09/17] block: kill bdev_dax_capable() Dan Williams
2017-01-28 8:36 ` [RFC PATCH 10/17] block: introduce bdev_dax_direct_access() Dan Williams
2017-01-30 12:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-30 18:16 ` Dan Williams
2017-02-01 8:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-02-01 9:21 ` Dan Williams
2017-02-01 9:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-28 8:37 ` [RFC PATCH 11/17] dm: add dax_operations support (producer) Dan Williams
2017-01-28 8:37 ` [RFC PATCH 12/17] dm: add dax_operations support (consumer) Dan Williams
2017-01-28 8:37 ` [RFC PATCH 13/17] fs: update mount_bdev() to lookup dax infrastructure Dan Williams
2017-01-30 12:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-30 18:29 ` Dan Williams
2017-02-01 8:08 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2017-02-01 9:16 ` Dan Williams
2017-01-28 8:37 ` [RFC PATCH 14/17] ext2, ext4, xfs: retrieve dax_inode through iomap operations Dan Williams
2017-01-28 8:37 ` [RFC PATCH 15/17] Revert "block: use DAX for partition table reads" Dan Williams
2017-01-28 8:37 ` [RFC PATCH 16/17] fs, dax: convert filesystem-dax to bdev_dax_direct_access Dan Williams
2017-01-28 8:37 ` [RFC PATCH 17/17] block: remove block_device_operations.direct_access and related infrastructure Dan Williams
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