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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
	Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>,
	linux-nvdimm <linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>,
	virtio-fs@redhat.com, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/19] dax: remove block device dependencies
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2020 04:51:59 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200107125159.GA15745@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191216181014.GA30106@redhat.com>

On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 01:10:14PM -0500, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> > Agree. In retrospect it was my laziness in the dax-device
> > implementation to expect the block-device to be available.
> > 
> > It looks like fs_dax_get_by_bdev() is an intercept point where a
> > dax_device could be dynamically created to represent the subset range
> > indicated by the block-device partition. That would open up more
> > cleanup opportunities.
> 
> Hi Dan,
> 
> After a long time I got time to look at it again. Want to work on this
> cleanup so that I can make progress with virtiofs DAX paches.
> 
> I am not sure I understand the requirements fully. I see that right now
> dax_device is created per device and all block partitions refer to it. If
> we want to create one dax_device per partition, then it looks like this
> will be structured more along the lines how block layer handles disk and
> partitions. (One gendisk for disk and block_devices for partitions,
> including partition 0). That probably means state belong to whole device
> will be in common structure say dax_device_common, and per partition state
> will be in dax_device and dax_device can carry a pointer to
> dax_device_common.
> 
> I am also not sure what does it mean to partition dax devices. How will
> partitions be exported to user space.

Dan, last time we talked you agreed that partitioned dax devices are
rather pointless IIRC.  Should we just deprecate partitions on DAX
devices and then remove them after a cycle or two?

  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-07 12:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 77+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-21 17:57 [PATCH v3 00/19][RFC] virtio-fs: Enable DAX support Vivek Goyal
2019-08-21 17:57 ` [PATCH 01/19] dax: remove block device dependencies Vivek Goyal
2019-08-26 11:51   ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-27 16:38     ` Vivek Goyal
2019-08-28  6:58       ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-28 17:58         ` Vivek Goyal
2019-08-28 22:53           ` Dave Chinner
2019-08-29  0:04             ` Dan Williams
2019-08-29  9:32               ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-12-16 18:10               ` Vivek Goyal
2020-01-07 12:51                 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2020-01-07 14:22                   ` Dan Williams
2020-01-07 17:07                     ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-01-07 17:29                       ` Dan Williams
2020-01-07 18:01                         ` Vivek Goyal
2020-01-07 18:07                           ` Dan Williams
2020-01-07 18:33                             ` Vivek Goyal
2020-01-07 18:49                               ` Dan Williams
2020-01-07 19:02                                 ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-01-07 19:46                                   ` Dan Williams
2020-01-07 23:38                                     ` Dan Williams
2020-01-09 11:24                                 ` Jan Kara
2020-01-09 20:03                                   ` Dan Williams
2020-01-10 12:36                                     ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-14 20:31                                     ` Vivek Goyal
2020-01-14 20:39                                       ` Dan Williams
2020-01-14 21:28                                         ` Vivek Goyal
2020-01-14 22:23                                           ` Dan Williams
2020-01-15 19:56                                             ` Vivek Goyal
2020-01-15 20:17                                               ` Dan Williams
2020-01-15 21:08                                                 ` Jeff Moyer
2020-01-16 18:09                                                   ` Dan Williams
2020-01-16 18:39                                                     ` Vivek Goyal
2020-01-16 19:09                                                       ` Dan Williams
2020-01-16 19:23                                                         ` Vivek Goyal
2020-02-11 17:33                                                     ` Vivek Goyal
2020-01-15  9:03                                           ` Jan Kara
2019-08-21 17:57 ` [PATCH 02/19] dax: Pass dax_dev to dax_writeback_mapping_range() Vivek Goyal
2019-08-26 11:53   ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-26 20:33     ` Vivek Goyal
2019-08-26 20:58       ` Vivek Goyal
2019-08-26 21:33         ` Dan Williams
2019-08-28  6:58         ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-03 14:12         ` Vivek Goyal
2020-01-03 18:12           ` Dan Williams
2020-01-03 18:18             ` Dan Williams
2020-01-03 18:33               ` Vivek Goyal
2020-01-03 19:30                 ` Dan Williams
2020-01-03 18:43               ` Vivek Goyal
2019-08-27 13:45       ` Jan Kara
2019-08-21 17:57 ` [PATCH 03/19] virtio: Add get_shm_region method Vivek Goyal
2019-08-21 17:57 ` [PATCH 04/19] virtio: Implement get_shm_region for PCI transport Vivek Goyal
2019-08-26  1:43   ` [Virtio-fs] " piaojun
2019-08-26 13:06     ` Vivek Goyal
2019-08-27  9:41       ` piaojun
2019-08-27  8:34   ` Cornelia Huck
2019-08-27  8:46     ` Cornelia Huck
2019-08-27 11:53     ` Vivek Goyal
2019-08-21 17:57 ` [PATCH 05/19] virtio: Implement get_shm_region for MMIO transport Vivek Goyal
2019-08-27  8:39   ` Cornelia Huck
2019-08-27 11:54     ` Vivek Goyal
2019-08-21 17:57 ` [PATCH 06/19] fuse, dax: add fuse_conn->dax_dev field Vivek Goyal
2019-08-21 17:57 ` [PATCH 07/19] virtio_fs, dax: Set up virtio_fs dax_device Vivek Goyal
2019-08-21 17:57 ` [PATCH 08/19] fuse: Keep a list of free dax memory ranges Vivek Goyal
2019-08-21 17:57 ` [PATCH 09/19] fuse: implement FUSE_INIT map_alignment field Vivek Goyal
2019-08-21 17:57 ` [PATCH 10/19] fuse: Introduce setupmapping/removemapping commands Vivek Goyal
2019-08-21 17:57 ` [PATCH 11/19] fuse, dax: Implement dax read/write operations Vivek Goyal
2019-08-21 19:49   ` Liu Bo
2019-08-22 12:59     ` Vivek Goyal
2019-08-21 17:57 ` [PATCH 12/19] fuse, dax: add DAX mmap support Vivek Goyal
2019-08-21 17:57 ` [PATCH 13/19] fuse: Define dax address space operations Vivek Goyal
2019-08-21 17:57 ` [PATCH 14/19] fuse, dax: Take ->i_mmap_sem lock during dax page fault Vivek Goyal
2019-08-21 17:57 ` [PATCH 15/19] fuse: Maintain a list of busy elements Vivek Goyal
2019-08-21 17:57 ` [PATCH 16/19] dax: Create a range version of dax_layout_busy_page() Vivek Goyal
2019-08-21 17:57 ` [PATCH 17/19] fuse: Add logic to free up a memory range Vivek Goyal
2019-08-21 17:57 ` [PATCH 18/19] fuse: Release file in process context Vivek Goyal
2019-08-21 17:57 ` [PATCH 19/19] fuse: Take inode lock for dax inode truncation Vivek Goyal

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