From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
To: "Verma, Vishal L" <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
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Wilcox,
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] dax: use sb_issue_zerout instead of calling dax_clear_sectors
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 12:37:14 -0700 [thread overview]
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On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 11:57 AM, Verma, Vishal L
<vishal.l.verma@intel.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-03-28 at 16:34 -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
>
> <>
>
>> Seems kind of sad to fail the fault due to a bad block when we were
>> going to zero it anyway, right? I'm not seeing a compelling reason to
>> keep any zeroing in fs/dax.c.
>
> Agreed - but how do we do this? clear_pmem needs to be able to clear an
> arbitrary number of bytes, but to go through the driver, we'd need to
> send down a bio? If only the driver had an rw_bytes like interface that
> could be used by anyone... :)
I think we're ok because clear_pmem() will always happen on PAGE_SIZE,
or HPAGE_SIZE boundaries.
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From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
To: "Verma, Vishal L" <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] dax: use sb_issue_zerout instead of calling dax_clear_sectors
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 12:37:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPcyv4hcSz7zKXzW3ZtdFbgBLbe0J2oNR-QC2L83adsvU3siFw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1459277829.6412.3.camel@intel.com>
On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 11:57 AM, Verma, Vishal L
<vishal.l.verma@intel.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-03-28 at 16:34 -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
>
> <>
>
>> Seems kind of sad to fail the fault due to a bad block when we were
>> going to zero it anyway, right? I'm not seeing a compelling reason to
>> keep any zeroing in fs/dax.c.
>
> Agreed - but how do we do this? clear_pmem needs to be able to clear an
> arbitrary number of bytes, but to go through the driver, we'd need to
> send down a bio? If only the driver had an rw_bytes like interface that
> could be used by anyone... :)
I think we're ok because clear_pmem() will always happen on PAGE_SIZE,
or HPAGE_SIZE boundaries.
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From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
To: "Verma, Vishal L" <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Cc: "linux-block@vger.kernel.org" <linux-block@vger.kernel.org>,
"xfs@oss.sgi.com" <xfs@oss.sgi.com>,
"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
"viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk" <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
"axboe@fb.com" <axboe@fb.com>,
"akpm@linux-foundation.org" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org" <linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org>,
"linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
"ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com" <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>,
"linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>,
"Wilcox, Matthew R" <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>,
"david@fromorbit.com" <david@fromorbit.com>,
"jack@suse.cz" <jack@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] dax: use sb_issue_zerout instead of calling dax_clear_sectors
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 12:37:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPcyv4hcSz7zKXzW3ZtdFbgBLbe0J2oNR-QC2L83adsvU3siFw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1459277829.6412.3.camel@intel.com>
On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 11:57 AM, Verma, Vishal L
<vishal.l.verma@intel.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-03-28 at 16:34 -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
>
> <>
>
>> Seems kind of sad to fail the fault due to a bad block when we were
>> going to zero it anyway, right? I'm not seeing a compelling reason to
>> keep any zeroing in fs/dax.c.
>
> Agreed - but how do we do this? clear_pmem needs to be able to clear an
> arbitrary number of bytes, but to go through the driver, we'd need to
> send down a bio? If only the driver had an rw_bytes like interface that
> could be used by anyone... :)
I think we're ok because clear_pmem() will always happen on PAGE_SIZE,
or HPAGE_SIZE boundaries.
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
To: "Verma, Vishal L" <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Cc: "axboe@fb.com" <axboe@fb.com>, "jack@suse.cz" <jack@suse.cz>,
"linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org" <linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org>,
"xfs@oss.sgi.com" <xfs@oss.sgi.com>,
"linux-block@vger.kernel.org" <linux-block@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
"viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk" <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
"linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
"akpm@linux-foundation.org" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>,
"ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com" <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>,
"Wilcox, Matthew R" <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] dax: use sb_issue_zerout instead of calling dax_clear_sectors
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 12:37:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPcyv4hcSz7zKXzW3ZtdFbgBLbe0J2oNR-QC2L83adsvU3siFw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1459277829.6412.3.camel@intel.com>
On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 11:57 AM, Verma, Vishal L
<vishal.l.verma@intel.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-03-28 at 16:34 -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
>
> <>
>
>> Seems kind of sad to fail the fault due to a bad block when we were
>> going to zero it anyway, right? I'm not seeing a compelling reason to
>> keep any zeroing in fs/dax.c.
>
> Agreed - but how do we do this? clear_pmem needs to be able to clear an
> arbitrary number of bytes, but to go through the driver, we'd need to
> send down a bio? If only the driver had an rw_bytes like interface that
> could be used by anyone... :)
I think we're ok because clear_pmem() will always happen on PAGE_SIZE,
or HPAGE_SIZE boundaries.
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Thread overview: 74+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-24 23:17 [PATCH 0/5] dax: handling of media errors Vishal Verma
2016-03-24 23:17 ` Vishal Verma
2016-03-24 23:17 ` Vishal Verma
2016-03-24 23:17 ` Vishal Verma
2016-03-24 23:17 ` [PATCH 1/5] block, dax: pass blk_dax_ctl through to drivers Vishal Verma
2016-03-24 23:17 ` Vishal Verma
2016-03-24 23:17 ` [PATCH 2/5] dax: fallback from pmd to pte on error Vishal Verma
2016-03-24 23:17 ` Vishal Verma
2016-03-24 23:17 ` Vishal Verma
2016-03-24 23:17 ` [PATCH 3/5] dax: enable dax in the presence of known media errors (badblocks) Vishal Verma
2016-03-24 23:17 ` Vishal Verma
2016-03-24 23:17 ` Vishal Verma
2016-03-24 23:23 ` Verma, Vishal L
2016-03-24 23:23 ` Verma, Vishal L
2016-03-24 23:23 ` Verma, Vishal L
2016-03-24 23:17 ` [PATCH 4/5] dax: use sb_issue_zerout instead of calling dax_clear_sectors Vishal Verma
2016-03-24 23:17 ` Vishal Verma
2016-03-24 23:17 ` Vishal Verma
2016-03-25 10:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-03-25 10:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-03-25 21:01 ` Verma, Vishal L
2016-03-25 21:01 ` Verma, Vishal L
2016-03-25 18:47 ` Dan Williams
2016-03-25 18:47 ` Dan Williams
2016-03-25 18:47 ` Dan Williams
2016-03-25 21:03 ` Verma, Vishal L
2016-03-25 21:03 ` Verma, Vishal L
2016-03-25 21:03 ` Verma, Vishal L
2016-03-25 21:20 ` Dan Williams
2016-03-25 21:20 ` Dan Williams
2016-03-25 21:20 ` Dan Williams
2016-03-28 20:01 ` Verma, Vishal L
2016-03-28 20:01 ` Verma, Vishal L
2016-03-28 20:01 ` Verma, Vishal L
2016-03-28 23:34 ` Dan Williams
2016-03-28 23:34 ` Dan Williams
2016-03-28 23:34 ` Dan Williams
2016-03-28 23:34 ` Dan Williams
2016-03-29 18:57 ` Verma, Vishal L
2016-03-29 18:57 ` Verma, Vishal L
2016-03-29 18:57 ` Verma, Vishal L
2016-03-29 18:57 ` Verma, Vishal L
2016-03-29 19:37 ` Dan Williams [this message]
2016-03-29 19:37 ` Dan Williams
2016-03-29 19:37 ` Dan Williams
2016-03-29 19:37 ` Dan Williams
2016-03-30 7:49 ` Jan Kara
2016-03-30 7:49 ` Jan Kara
2016-03-30 7:49 ` Jan Kara
2016-03-30 7:49 ` Jan Kara
2016-03-30 7:49 ` Jan Kara
2016-04-01 19:17 ` Verma, Vishal L
2016-04-01 19:17 ` Verma, Vishal L
2016-04-01 19:17 ` Verma, Vishal L
2016-04-04 12:09 ` Jan Kara
2016-04-04 12:09 ` Jan Kara
2016-04-04 12:09 ` Jan Kara
2016-04-04 12:09 ` Jan Kara
2016-04-04 12:09 ` Jan Kara
2016-03-24 23:17 ` [PATCH 5/5] dax: handle media errors in dax_do_io Vishal Verma
2016-03-24 23:17 ` Vishal Verma
2016-03-24 23:17 ` Vishal Verma
2016-03-25 10:45 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-03-25 10:45 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-03-25 10:45 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-03-25 20:59 ` Verma, Vishal L
2016-03-25 20:59 ` Verma, Vishal L
2016-03-25 21:42 ` Dan Williams
2016-03-25 21:42 ` Dan Williams
2016-03-25 22:36 ` Verma, Vishal L
2016-03-25 22:36 ` Verma, Vishal L
2016-03-25 22:36 ` Verma, Vishal L
2016-03-26 16:53 ` hch
2016-03-26 16:53 ` hch
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