From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C01CC72 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 2021 15:55:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4AB5F60FC4; Fri, 29 Oct 2021 15:55:25 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1635522925; bh=/k26Brg4+jtEQ3L7YzlxV5wwLsjmiyhBtI1Xv0qe4jM=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=VNGR/oT5nGHHvMugzkATBbYvd9F6fQA09UpjqWqVPxKBtrRkcFw10uYcU96r4Y5e9 BaNLU2TAu5G25fISB6pXK1/JZX+S4dr/HMvRmPUH8Edr/t1LiljcPus0OjDWw7ypW0 4EPLVRfxgon+ImToi17MZEqzKb5Gh5cbLmWGIGdu44rLX++iOPCkcVZzYN1iNPUdhu ig+H9p46kun6H4yKSgjvS5hza9PP1p3D/4d0Z6Z7UeMhh3RdseFcOspVpYbIXEaaVD z3vlYv7WtW9WWwh+XaOu1OGv6Th/km6Qop9MOz3Oco0bjW7QLca7ef5pWDU57NAWBq P70mxqn/wKgSA== Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2021 08:55:24 -0700 From: "Darrick J. Wong" To: Dan Williams Cc: Stephen Rothwell , Christoph Hellwig , Shiyang Ruan , Mike Snitzer , Ira Weiny , device-mapper development , linux-xfs , Linux NVDIMM , linux-s390 , linux-fsdevel , linux-erofs@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-ext4 , virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: futher decouple DAX from block devices Message-ID: <20211029155524.GE24307@magnolia> References: <20211018044054.1779424-1-hch@lst.de> <20211029105139.1194bb7f@canb.auug.org.au> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: nvdimm@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 08:42:29AM -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 4:52 PM Stephen Rothwell wrote: > > > > Hi Dan, > > > > On Wed, 27 Oct 2021 13:46:31 -0700 Dan Williams wrote: > > > > > > My merge resolution is here [1]. Christoph, please have a look. The > > > rebase and the merge result are both passing my test and I'm now going > > > to review the individual patches. However, while I do that and collect > > > acks from DM and EROFS folks, I want to give Stephen a heads up that > > > this is coming. Primarily I want to see if someone sees a better > > > strategy to merge this, please let me know, but if not I plan to walk > > > Stephen and Linus through the resolution. > > > > It doesn't look to bad to me (however it is a bit late in the cycle :-( > > ). Once you are happy, just put it in your tree (some of the conflicts > > are against the current -rc3 based version of your tree anyway) and I > > will cope with it on Monday. > > Christoph, Darrick, Shiyang, > > I'm losing my nerve to try to jam this into v5.16 this late in the > cycle. Always a solid choice to hold off for a little more testing and a little less anxiety. :) I don't usually accept new code patches for iomap after rc4 anyway. > I do want to get dax+reflink squared away as soon as possible, > but that looks like something that needs to build on top of a > v5.16-rc1 at this point. If Linus does a -rc8 then maybe it would have > enough soak time, but otherwise I want to take the time to collect the > acks and queue up some more follow-on cleanups to prepare for > block-less-dax. I think that hwpoison-calls-xfs-rmap patchset is a prerequisite for dax+reflink anyway, right? /me had concluded both were 5.17 things. --D