From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
"linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org" <linux-nvdimm@ml01.01.org>,
Brian Boylston <brian.boylston@hpe.com>,
Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
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Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
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Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/13] dax, pmem: move cpu cache maintenance to libnvdimm
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2017 19:30:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170122183046.GA7359@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BY2PR21MB00368E95CBB533D4C761C882CB730@BY2PR21MB0036.namprd21.prod.outlook.com>
On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 06:19:24PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> No, I mean a network filesystem like 9p or cifs or nfs. If the memcpy
> is supposed to be performed by the backing device
struct backing_dev has no relation to the DAX code. Even more so what's
the point of doing a DAXish memcpy in that case? If we buffer in
memory for network I/O we should just use the page cache.
> (Also, the network filesystem might have a command, like RDMA has/will have, to ensure that the write has reached persistence)
I know very well due to my work for a DAX-backed pNFS layout. But that
is mostly transparent to the NFS frontend code and won't use DAX
on the client at all. Just pagecache as a source for RDMA READ/WRITE.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-22 18:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-20 3:50 [PATCH 00/13] dax, pmem: move cpu cache maintenance to libnvdimm Dan Williams
2017-01-20 3:50 ` [PATCH 01/13] x86, dax, pmem: remove indirection around memcpy_from_pmem() Dan Williams
2017-01-20 3:50 ` [PATCH 02/13] block, dax: introduce dax_operations Dan Williams
2017-01-20 17:28 ` Dan Williams
2017-01-20 3:50 ` [PATCH 03/13] x86, dax, pmem: introduce 'copy_from_iter' dax operation Dan Williams
2017-02-03 1:52 ` [lkp-robot] [x86, dax, pmem] 2e12109d1c: fio.write_bw_MBps -75% regression kernel test robot
2017-02-17 3:52 ` [PATCH 03/13] x86, dax, pmem: introduce 'copy_from_iter' dax operation Ross Zwisler
2017-02-17 3:56 ` Dan Williams
2017-01-20 3:50 ` [PATCH 04/13] dax, pmem: introduce an optional 'flush' " Dan Williams
2017-01-20 3:50 ` [PATCH 05/13] x86, dax: replace clear_pmem() with open coded memset + dax_ops->flush Dan Williams
2017-01-20 10:27 ` Jan Kara
2017-01-20 15:33 ` Dan Williams
2017-01-20 3:50 ` [PATCH 06/13] x86, dax, libnvdimm: move wb_cache_pmem() to libnvdimm Dan Williams
2017-01-20 3:50 ` [PATCH 07/13] x86, libnvdimm, pmem: move arch_invalidate_pmem() " Dan Williams
2017-01-20 3:50 ` [PATCH 08/13] x86, libnvdimm, dax: stop abusing __copy_user_nocache Dan Williams
2017-03-28 16:21 ` Ross Zwisler
2017-03-28 16:26 ` Dan Williams
2017-01-20 3:51 ` [PATCH 09/13] libnvdimm, pmem: implement cache bypass for all copy_from_iter() operations Dan Williams
2017-01-20 3:51 ` [PATCH 10/13] libnvdimm, pmem: fix persistence warning Dan Williams
2017-01-20 3:51 ` [PATCH 11/13] libnvdimm, nfit: enable support for volatile ranges Dan Williams
2017-01-20 3:51 ` [PATCH 12/13] libnvdimm, pmem: disable dax flushing when pmem is fronting a volatile region Dan Williams
2017-01-20 3:51 ` [PATCH 13/13] libnvdimm, pmem: disable dax flushing for 'cache flush on fail' platforms Dan Williams
2017-01-21 16:28 ` [PATCH 00/13] dax, pmem: move cpu cache maintenance to libnvdimm Matthew Wilcox
2017-01-21 17:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-22 15:43 ` Matthew Wilcox
2017-01-22 16:29 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-22 18:19 ` Matthew Wilcox
2017-01-22 18:30 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2017-01-22 18:39 ` Matthew Wilcox
2017-01-22 18:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-23 6:37 ` Matthew Wilcox
2017-01-23 7:10 ` Dan Williams
2017-01-23 16:00 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-23 17:14 ` Dan Williams
2017-01-23 18:03 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-23 18:31 ` Dan Williams
2017-01-23 15:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-22 17:30 ` Dan Williams
2017-01-23 16:01 ` Christoph Hellwig
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