From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>,
Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
"Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V5 00/12] Enable per-file/per-directory DAX operations V5
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 08:27:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200312072729.GA9345@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200312004932.GH10776@dread.disaster.area>
On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 11:49:32AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > > IOWs, the dax_associate_page() related functionality probably needs
> > > to be a filesystem callout - part of the aops vector, I think, so
> > > that device dax can still use it. That way XFS can go it's own way,
> > > while ext4 and device dax can continue to use the existing mechanism
> > > mechanisn that is currently implemented....
> >
> > s/XFS/XFS with rmap/, as most XFS file systems currently don't have
> > that enabled we'll also need to keep the legacy path around.
>
> Sure, that's trivially easy to handle in the XFS code once the
> callouts are in place.
>
> But, quite frankly, we can enforce rmap to be enabled
> enabled because nobody is using a reflink enabled FS w/ DAX right
> now. Everyone will have to mkfs their filesystems anyway to enable
> reflink+dax, so we simply don't allow reflink+dax to be enabled
> unless rmap is also enabled. Simple, easy, trivial.
True, I think rmap will be required for DAX+reflink. But we still
need the legacy infrastructure for error reporting.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-12 7:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-27 5:24 [PATCH V5 00/12] Enable per-file/per-directory DAX operations V5 ira.weiny
2020-02-27 5:24 ` [PATCH V5 01/12] fs/xfs: Remove unnecessary initialization of i_rwsem ira.weiny
2020-02-27 17:25 ` Ira Weiny
2020-02-27 5:24 ` [PATCH V5 02/12] fs: Remove unneeded IS_DAX() check ira.weiny
2020-02-27 5:24 ` [PATCH V5 03/12] fs/stat: Define DAX statx attribute ira.weiny
2020-02-27 5:24 ` [PATCH V5 04/12] fs/xfs: Isolate the physical DAX flag from enabled ira.weiny
2020-02-27 5:24 ` [PATCH V5 05/12] fs/xfs: Create function xfs_inode_enable_dax() ira.weiny
2020-03-01 22:37 ` Dave Chinner
2020-02-27 5:24 ` [PATCH V5 06/12] fs: Add locking for a dynamic address space operations state ira.weiny
2020-03-02 1:26 ` Dave Chinner
2020-03-02 1:36 ` Dave Chinner
2020-02-27 5:24 ` [PATCH V5 07/12] fs: Prevent DAX state change if file is mmap'ed ira.weiny
2020-02-27 5:24 ` [PATCH V5 08/12] fs/xfs: Hold off aops users while changing DAX state ira.weiny
2020-02-27 5:24 ` [PATCH V5 09/12] fs/xfs: Clean up locking in dax invalidate ira.weiny
2020-02-27 5:24 ` [PATCH V5 10/12] fs/xfs: Allow toggle of effective DAX flag ira.weiny
2020-02-27 5:24 ` [PATCH V5 11/12] fs/xfs: Remove xfs_diflags_to_linux() ira.weiny
2020-02-27 5:24 ` [PATCH V5 12/12] Documentation/dax: Update Usage section ira.weiny
2020-03-05 15:51 ` [PATCH V5 00/12] Enable per-file/per-directory DAX operations V5 Christoph Hellwig
2020-03-09 17:04 ` Ira Weiny
2020-03-11 3:36 ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-03-11 6:29 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-03-11 17:07 ` Dan Williams
2020-03-16 9:52 ` Jan Kara
2020-03-16 9:55 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-01 4:00 ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-04-01 10:25 ` Jan Kara
2020-04-02 8:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-02 20:55 ` Ira Weiny
2020-04-03 7:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-03 15:48 ` Ira Weiny
2020-04-03 17:03 ` Jan Kara
2020-04-03 18:18 ` Ira Weiny
2020-04-03 18:21 ` Ira Weiny
2020-04-03 18:37 ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-04-05 6:19 ` Ira Weiny
2020-04-06 10:00 ` Jan Kara
2020-04-03 18:29 ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-04-03 16:05 ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-04-03 4:39 ` Ira Weiny
2020-03-11 6:39 ` Dave Chinner
2020-03-11 6:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-03-11 17:07 ` Dan Williams
2020-03-12 0:49 ` Dave Chinner
2020-03-12 3:00 ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-03-12 7:27 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
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