Re: [Lsf-pc] [LSF/MM TOPIC] The end of the DAX experiment

Goldwyn Rodrigues
2019-06-05T16:22:10Z

Hi Dan/Jerome,

On 12:20 14/02, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 12:09 PM Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 11:31:24AM -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
> > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 11:10 AM Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > > I am just again working on my struct page mapping patchset as well as
> > > > the generic page write protection that sits on top. I hope to be able
> > > > to post the v2 in couple weeks. You can always look at my posting last
> > > > year to see more details.
> > >
> > > Yes, I have that in mind as one of the contenders. However, it's not
> > > clear to me that its a suitable fit for filesystem-reflink. Others
> > > have floated the 'page proxy' idea, so it would be good to discuss the
> > > merits of the general approaches.
> >
> > ... and my preferred option of putting pfn entries in the page cache.
>
> Another option to include the discussion.
>
> > Or is that what you meant by "page proxy"?
>
> Page proxy would be an object that a filesystem could allocate to
> point back to a single physical 'struct page *'. The proxy would
> contain an override for page->index.

Was there any outcome on this and its implementation? I am specifically
interested in this for DAX support on btrfs/CoW: The TODO comment on
top of dax_associate_entry() :)

If there are patches/git tree I could use to base my patches on, it would
be nice.

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Goldwyn