From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Ted Tso <tytso@mit.edu>,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Ritesh Harjani <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/11] ext4: Stop using ext4_writepage() for writeout of ordered data
Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2022 22:56:25 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y4xEmSsj7sNCrsVG@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221202163815.22928-1-jack@suse.cz>
On Fri, Dec 02, 2022 at 07:39:25PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> I have also modified ext4_writepages() to use write_cache_pages() instead of
> generic_writepages() so now we don't expose .writepage hook at all. We still
> keep ext4_writepage() as a callback for write_cache_pages().
Nice!
> We should refactor
> that path as well and get rid of ext4_writepage() completely but that is for a
> separate cleanup.
Agreed.
> Also note that jbd2 still uses generic_writepages() in its
> jbd2_journal_submit_inode_data_buffers() helper because it is still used from
> OCFS2. Again, something to be dealt with in a separate patchset.
Indeed. I think simply moving jbd2_journal_submit_inode_data_buffers to
ocfs2 and then open coding generic_writepages will be the right thing to
do here.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-12-04 6:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-12-02 18:39 [PATCH v2 0/11] ext4: Stop using ext4_writepage() for writeout of ordered data Jan Kara
2022-12-02 18:39 ` [PATCH v2 1/11] ext4: Handle redirtying in ext4_bio_write_page() Jan Kara
2022-12-02 18:39 ` [PATCH v2 2/11] ext4: Move keep_towrite handling to ext4_bio_write_page() Jan Kara
2022-12-02 18:39 ` [PATCH v2 3/11] ext4: Remove nr_submitted from ext4_bio_write_page() Jan Kara
2022-12-02 18:39 ` [PATCH v2 4/11] ext4: Drop pointless IO submission " Jan Kara
2022-12-02 18:39 ` [PATCH v2 5/11] ext4: Add support for writepages calls that cannot map blocks Jan Kara
2022-12-02 18:39 ` [PATCH v2 6/11] ext4: Provide ext4_do_writepages() Jan Kara
2022-12-02 18:39 ` [PATCH v2 7/11] ext4: Move percpu_rwsem protection into ext4_writepages() Jan Kara
2022-12-02 18:39 ` [PATCH v2 8/11] ext4: Switch to using ext4_do_writepages() for ordered data writeout Jan Kara
2022-12-02 18:39 ` [PATCH v2 9/11] ext4: Switch to using write_cache_pages() for data=journal writeout Jan Kara
2022-12-04 6:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-12-05 10:07 ` Jan Kara
2022-12-02 18:39 ` [PATCH v2 0/11] ext4: Stop providing .writepage hook Jan Kara
2022-12-04 6:59 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-12-02 18:39 ` [PATCH v2 1/11] ext4: Remove ordered data support from ext4_writepage() Jan Kara
2022-12-04 7:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-12-05 10:17 ` Jan Kara
2022-12-03 0:52 ` [PATCH v2 0/11] ext4: Stop using ext4_writepage() for writeout of ordered data Ritesh Harjani
2022-12-05 9:13 ` Jan Kara
2022-12-04 6:56 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
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