From: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>,
"linux-kernel\@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] dax: move writeback calls into the filesystems
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2016 15:58:44 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x49vb5yvrzv.fsf@segfault.boston.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPcyv4iHi17pv_VC=WgEP4_GgN9OvSr8xbw1bvbEFMiQ83GbWw@mail.gmail.com> (Dan Williams's message of "Mon, 8 Feb 2016 12:55:24 -0800")
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> writes:
> I agree the mount option needs to die, and I fully grok the reasoning.
> What I'm concerned with is that a system using fully-DAX-aware
> applications is forced to incur the overhead of maintaining *sync
> semantics, periodic sync(2) in particular, even if it is not relying
> on those semantics.
>
> However, like I said in my other mail, we can solve that with
> alternate interfaces to persistent memory if that becomes an issue and
> not require that "disable *sync" capability to come through DAX.
What do you envision these alternate interfaces looking like?
-Jeff
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From: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>,
"linux-kernel\@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>, Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>,
linux-ext4 <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
"linux-nvdimm\@lists.01.org" <linux-nvdimm@ml01.01.org>,
XFS Developers <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] dax: move writeback calls into the filesystems
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2016 15:58:44 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x49vb5yvrzv.fsf@segfault.boston.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPcyv4iHi17pv_VC=WgEP4_GgN9OvSr8xbw1bvbEFMiQ83GbWw@mail.gmail.com> (Dan Williams's message of "Mon, 8 Feb 2016 12:55:24 -0800")
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> writes:
> I agree the mount option needs to die, and I fully grok the reasoning.
> What I'm concerned with is that a system using fully-DAX-aware
> applications is forced to incur the overhead of maintaining *sync
> semantics, periodic sync(2) in particular, even if it is not relying
> on those semantics.
>
> However, like I said in my other mail, we can solve that with
> alternate interfaces to persistent memory if that becomes an issue and
> not require that "disable *sync" capability to come through DAX.
What do you envision these alternate interfaces looking like?
-Jeff
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From: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>,
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XFS Developers <xfs@oss.sgi.com>, Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>,
Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>,
linux-ext4 <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] dax: move writeback calls into the filesystems
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2016 15:58:44 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x49vb5yvrzv.fsf@segfault.boston.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPcyv4iHi17pv_VC=WgEP4_GgN9OvSr8xbw1bvbEFMiQ83GbWw@mail.gmail.com> (Dan Williams's message of "Mon, 8 Feb 2016 12:55:24 -0800")
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> writes:
> I agree the mount option needs to die, and I fully grok the reasoning.
> What I'm concerned with is that a system using fully-DAX-aware
> applications is forced to incur the overhead of maintaining *sync
> semantics, periodic sync(2) in particular, even if it is not relying
> on those semantics.
>
> However, like I said in my other mail, we can solve that with
> alternate interfaces to persistent memory if that becomes an issue and
> not require that "disable *sync" capability to come through DAX.
What do you envision these alternate interfaces looking like?
-Jeff
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From: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>, Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>,
linux-ext4 <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
"linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org" <linux-nvdimm@ml01.01.org>,
XFS Developers <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] dax: move writeback calls into the filesystems
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2016 15:58:44 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x49vb5yvrzv.fsf@segfault.boston.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPcyv4iHi17pv_VC=WgEP4_GgN9OvSr8xbw1bvbEFMiQ83GbWw@mail.gmail.com> (Dan Williams's message of "Mon, 8 Feb 2016 12:55:24 -0800")
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> writes:
> I agree the mount option needs to die, and I fully grok the reasoning.
> What I'm concerned with is that a system using fully-DAX-aware
> applications is forced to incur the overhead of maintaining *sync
> semantics, periodic sync(2) in particular, even if it is not relying
> on those semantics.
>
> However, like I said in my other mail, we can solve that with
> alternate interfaces to persistent memory if that becomes an issue and
> not require that "disable *sync" capability to come through DAX.
What do you envision these alternate interfaces looking like?
-Jeff
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-08 20:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-07 7:19 [PATCH 0/2] DAX bdev fixes - move flushing calls to FS Ross Zwisler
2016-02-07 7:19 ` Ross Zwisler
2016-02-07 7:19 ` Ross Zwisler
2016-02-07 7:19 ` [PATCH 1/2] dax: pass bdev argument to dax_clear_blocks() Ross Zwisler
2016-02-07 7:19 ` Ross Zwisler
2016-02-07 7:19 ` Ross Zwisler
2016-02-07 18:19 ` Dan Williams
2016-02-07 18:19 ` Dan Williams
2016-02-07 18:19 ` Dan Williams
2016-02-08 1:46 ` Ross Zwisler
2016-02-08 1:46 ` Ross Zwisler
2016-02-08 1:46 ` Ross Zwisler
2016-02-08 4:29 ` Ross Zwisler
2016-02-08 4:29 ` Ross Zwisler
2016-02-08 4:29 ` Ross Zwisler
2016-02-07 22:03 ` Dave Chinner
2016-02-07 22:03 ` Dave Chinner
2016-02-07 22:03 ` Dave Chinner
2016-02-08 1:44 ` Ross Zwisler
2016-02-08 1:44 ` Ross Zwisler
2016-02-08 1:44 ` Ross Zwisler
2016-02-08 5:17 ` Dave Chinner
2016-02-08 5:17 ` Dave Chinner
2016-02-08 5:17 ` Dave Chinner
2016-02-08 15:34 ` Ross Zwisler
2016-02-08 15:34 ` Ross Zwisler
2016-02-08 15:34 ` Ross Zwisler
2016-02-08 15:34 ` Ross Zwisler
2016-02-07 7:19 ` [PATCH 2/2] dax: move writeback calls into the filesystems Ross Zwisler
2016-02-07 7:19 ` Ross Zwisler
2016-02-07 7:19 ` Ross Zwisler
2016-02-07 7:19 ` Ross Zwisler
2016-02-07 19:13 ` Dan Williams
2016-02-07 19:13 ` Dan Williams
2016-02-07 19:13 ` Dan Williams
2016-02-07 21:50 ` Dave Chinner
2016-02-07 21:50 ` Dave Chinner
2016-02-07 21:50 ` Dave Chinner
2016-02-08 8:18 ` Dan Williams
2016-02-08 8:18 ` Dan Williams
2016-02-08 8:18 ` Dan Williams
2016-02-08 8:18 ` Dan Williams
2016-02-08 20:18 ` Dave Chinner
2016-02-08 20:18 ` Dave Chinner
2016-02-08 20:18 ` Dave Chinner
2016-02-08 20:55 ` Dan Williams
2016-02-08 20:55 ` Dan Williams
2016-02-08 20:55 ` Dan Williams
2016-02-08 20:58 ` Jeff Moyer [this message]
2016-02-08 20:58 ` Jeff Moyer
2016-02-08 20:58 ` Jeff Moyer
2016-02-08 20:58 ` Jeff Moyer
2016-02-08 22:05 ` Dan Williams
2016-02-08 22:05 ` Dan Williams
2016-02-08 22:05 ` Dan Williams
2016-02-09 9:43 ` Jan Kara
2016-02-09 9:43 ` Jan Kara
2016-02-09 9:43 ` Jan Kara
2016-02-09 16:01 ` Jan Kara
2016-02-09 16:01 ` Jan Kara
2016-02-09 16:01 ` Jan Kara
2016-02-09 16:01 ` Jan Kara
2016-02-09 18:06 ` Ross Zwisler
2016-02-09 18:06 ` Ross Zwisler
2016-02-09 18:06 ` Ross Zwisler
2016-02-09 18:06 ` Ross Zwisler
2016-02-08 18:31 ` Ross Zwisler
2016-02-08 18:31 ` Ross Zwisler
2016-02-08 18:31 ` Ross Zwisler
2016-02-08 19:23 ` Dan Williams
2016-02-08 19:23 ` Dan Williams
2016-02-08 19:23 ` Dan Williams
2016-02-08 10:48 ` Jan Kara
2016-02-08 10:48 ` Jan Kara
2016-02-08 10:48 ` Jan Kara
2016-02-08 16:12 ` Ross Zwisler
2016-02-08 16:12 ` Ross Zwisler
2016-02-08 16:12 ` Ross Zwisler
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