From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga11.intel.com ([192.55.52.93]:64499 "EHLO mga11.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752877AbdJMT0y (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Oct 2017 15:26:54 -0400 Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 13:26:53 -0600 From: Ross Zwisler To: Jan Kara Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig , Dan Williams , Ross Zwisler , Ted Tso , "Darrick J. Wong" Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/19] dax: Allow tuning whether dax_insert_mapping_entry() dirties entry Message-ID: <20171013192653.GA29081@linux.intel.com> References: <20171011200603.27442-1-jack@suse.cz> <20171011200603.27442-12-jack@suse.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20171011200603.27442-12-jack@suse.cz> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 10:05:55PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > Currently we dirty radix tree entry whenever dax_insert_mapping_entry() > gets called for a write fault. With synchronous page faults we would > like to insert clean radix tree entry and dirty it only once we call > fdatasync() and update page tables to same some unnecessary cache > flushing. Add 'dirty' argument to dax_insert_mapping_entry() for that. > > Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Looks good. Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler