From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753184AbcGUDDp (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jul 2016 23:03:45 -0400 Received: from mail-pf0-f181.google.com ([209.85.192.181]:35151 "EHLO mail-pf0-f181.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751292AbcGUDDn (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jul 2016 23:03:43 -0400 Subject: Re: dm stripe: add DAX support To: Mike Snitzer , axboe@fb.com References: <1466792610-30369-1-git-send-email-toshi.kani@hpe.com> <20160624182859.GD13898@redhat.com> <1468362104.8908.43.camel@hpe.com> <20160713020100.GA5872@redhat.com> <1468422189.8908.53.camel@hpe.com> <20160721000142.GA21913@redhat.com> Cc: "Kani, Toshimitsu" , "dm-devel@redhat.com" , "linux-nvdimm@ml01.01.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-raid@vger.kernel.org" , "yigal@plexistor.com" , "dan.j.williams@intel.com" , "ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com" , "agk@redhat.com" From: Jens Axboe Message-ID: Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 21:03:40 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20160721000142.GA21913@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 07/20/2016 06:01 PM, Mike Snitzer wrote: > On Wed, Jul 13 2016 at 11:03am -0400, > Kani, Toshimitsu wrote: > >> On Tue, 2016-07-12 at 22:01 -0400, Mike Snitzer wrote: >>> On Tue, Jul 12 2016 at 6:22pm -0400, >>> Kani, Toshimitsu wrote: >>>> On Fri, 2016-06-24 at 14:29 -0400, Mike Snitzer wrote: >>>>> >> : >>> Thanks for putting this summary together. Unfortunately none of the DM >>> changes can be queued for 4.8 until Jens takes the 2 block core patches: >>> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9196021/ >>> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9196019/ >>> >>> Not sure what the hold up and/or issue is with them. But I've asked >>> twice (and implicilty a 3rd time here). Hopefully they land in time for >>> 4.8. >> >> Hi Jens, >> >> Can you take the two patches above? These patches add QUEUE_FLAG_DAX and its >> sysfs show func. They allow device-mapper to set dax-capability based on its >> configuration, and also allow user applications to check dax-capability via >> sysfs. > > Hi Jens, > > As I shared with you before, here are the 2 patches I staged in > linux-next via linux-dm.git's 'for-next' (same as in the patchwork > references above) -- these were staged just so we had linux-next > coverage until you picked them up. > > Please pick these up for 4.8 -- the changes are straightforward, are > required for DM's DAX support, and Dan Williams has also acked them: > > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm.git/commit/?h=for-next&id=6c00531c6affa42b165df73a1eac3289bc45f4c4 > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm.git/commit/?h=for-next&id=51d1a5abcd0e88cb4528f35643245ea59cf234f1 > > Feel free to pick them up from patchwork or cherry-pick from > linux-dm.git Added for 4.8, thanks! -- Jens Axboe