From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754084AbbAESlx (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jan 2015 13:41:53 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.9]:36798 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751615AbbAESlw (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jan 2015 13:41:52 -0500 Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 10:41:43 -0800 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Matthew Wilcox , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 00/20] DAX: Page cache bypass for filesystems on memory storage Message-ID: <20150105184143.GA665@infradead.org> References: <1414185652-28663-1-git-send-email-matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com> <20141210140347.GA23252@infradead.org> <20141210141211.GD2220@wil.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20141210141211.GD2220@wil.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 09:12:11AM -0500, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 06:03:47AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > What is the status of this patch set? > > I have no outstanding bug reports against it. Linus told me that he > wants to see it come through Andrew's tree. I have an email two weeks > ago from Andrew saying that it's on his list. I would love to see it > merged since it's almost a year old at this point. And since then another month and aother merge window has passed. Is there any way to speed up merging big patch sets like this one? Another one is non-blocking read one that has real life use on one of the biggest server side webapp frameworks but doesn't seem to make progress, which is a bit frustrating.