Re: [PATCH 00/14] Clean up the writeback paths

From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/14] Clean up the writeback paths
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2023 13:51:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <226bdceb-e981-4a76-8912-bb5ec819ab78@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231215200245.748418-1-willy@infradead.org>

On 12/15/23 1:02 PM, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
> I don't think any of this conflicts with the writeback refactoring that
> Christoph has kindly taken over from me, although we might want to redo
> patch 13 on that infrastructure rather than using write_cache_pages().
> That can be a later addition.
> 
> Most of these patches verge on the trivial, converting filesystems that
> just use block_write_full_page() to use mpage_writepages().  But as we
> saw with Christoph's earlier patchset, there can be some "interesting"
> gotchas, and I clearly haven't tested the majority of filesystems I've
> touched here.
> 
> Patches 3 & 4 get rid of a lot of stack usage on architectures with
> larger page sizes; 1024 bytes on 64-bit systems with 64KiB pages.
> It starts to open the door to larger folio sizes on all architectures,
> but it's certainly not enough yet.
> 
> Patch 14 is kind of trivial, but it's nice to get that simplification in.

Series looks good to me:

Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

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