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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Cc: ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com, jack@suse.cz
Subject: [PATCH 0/4] xfs: fixes for XFS_DIFLAG2_DAX support
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 16:22:10 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1455513734-15192-1-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> (raw)

Hi folks,

This is a series to add the correct constraints to using the on-disk
inode flag to enable DAX on per-file basis. The same constraints are
placed on setting the flag on directories for inheritance purposes.

These constraints are:
	- the inode flag is limited to regular files or directory
	  inodes.
	- the S_DAX flag is only ever set on regular files
	- the flag can only ever be set on filesystems which have
	  blocksize == PAGE_SIZE (for now)
	- When the flag is set or cleared, the current mapping
	  contents are flushed and then invalidated so that the new
	  access mode starts with an empty mapping.
	- Setting or clearing the flag is atomic w.r.t. IO and
	  page faults.

I've tested these manually with xfs_io (patchset for supporting
chattr +x/-x to be sent soon), and it all appears to work as
expected. I'd like to push these for 4.5-rc6 so the initial kernel
with support for this flag doesn't do silly things, so comments,
testing and review woul dbe appreciated.

Cheers,

Dave.

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             reply	other threads:[~2016-02-15  5:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-15  5:22 Dave Chinner [this message]
2016-02-15  5:22 ` [PATCH 1/4] xfs: XFS_DIFLAG_DAX is only for regular files or directories Dave Chinner
2016-02-15  5:22 ` [PATCH 2/4] xfs: S_DAX is only for regular files Dave Chinner
2016-02-15  5:22 ` [PATCH 3/4] xfs: dynamically switch modes when XFS_DIFLAG2_DAX is set/cleared Dave Chinner
2016-02-17  7:31   ` [PATCH 3/4 v2] " Dave Chinner
2016-02-17 20:57     ` Ross Zwisler
2016-02-15  5:22 ` [PATCH 4/4] xfs: XFS_DIFLAG2_DAX limited by PAGE_SIZE Dave Chinner
2016-02-16  0:12   ` Eric Sandeen
2016-02-16  0:39     ` Dave Chinner
2016-02-16  0:54       ` Eric Sandeen
2016-02-16 23:53 ` [PATCH 0/4] xfs: fixes for XFS_DIFLAG2_DAX support Ross Zwisler
2016-02-17  0:23   ` Dave Chinner
2016-02-17 20:04 ` Brian Foster
2016-02-17 22:56 ` Ross Zwisler

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