From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>,
Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>,
Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>,
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Subject: Re: futher decouple DAX from block devices
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2021 11:10:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPcyv4jbjc+XtX5RX5OL3vPadsYZwoK1NG1qC5AcpySBu5tL4g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211104173559.GB31740@lst.de>
On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 10:36 AM Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Nov 04, 2021 at 10:34:17AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > /me wonders, are block devices going away? Will mkfs.xfs have to learn
> > how to talk to certain chardevs? I guess jffs2 and others already do
> > that kind of thing... but I suppose I can wait for the real draft to
> > show up to ramble further. ;)
>
> Right now I've mostly been looking into the kernel side. An no, I
> do not expect /dev/pmem* to go away as you'll still need it for a
> not DAX aware file system and/or application (such as mkfs initially).
>
> But yes, just pointing mkfs to the chardev should be doable with very
> little work. We can point it to a regular file after all.
Note that I've avoided implementing read/write fops for dax devices
partly out of concern for not wanting to figure out shared-mmap vs
write coherence issues, but also because of a bet with Dave Hansen
that device-dax not grow features like what happened to hugetlbfs. So
it would seem mkfs would need to switch to mmap I/O, or bite the
bullet and implement read/write fops in the driver.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-04 18:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-18 4:40 futher decouple DAX from block devices Christoph Hellwig
2021-10-18 4:40 ` [PATCH 01/11] dm: make the DAX support dependend on CONFIG_FS_DAX Christoph Hellwig
2021-10-27 20:53 ` Dan Williams
2021-11-01 16:12 ` Mike Snitzer
2021-10-18 4:40 ` [PATCH 02/11] dax: remove CONFIG_DAX_DRIVER Christoph Hellwig
2021-10-27 20:54 ` Dan Williams
2021-10-18 4:40 ` [PATCH 03/11] dax: simplify the dax_device <-> gendisk association Christoph Hellwig
2021-10-27 22:03 ` Dan Williams
2021-10-29 4:57 ` Ira Weiny
2021-11-01 16:28 ` Mike Snitzer
2021-10-18 4:40 ` [PATCH 04/11] dax: remove the pgmap sanity checks in generic_fsdax_supported Christoph Hellwig
2021-10-27 23:02 ` Dan Williams
2021-10-18 4:40 ` [PATCH 05/11] dax: move the partition alignment check into fs_dax_get_by_bdev Christoph Hellwig
2021-10-27 23:07 ` Dan Williams
2021-10-18 4:40 ` [PATCH 06/11] xfs: factor out a xfs_setup_dax helper Christoph Hellwig
2021-10-18 16:43 ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-10-19 7:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-10-27 23:37 ` Dan Williams
2021-10-18 4:40 ` [PATCH 07/11] dax: remove dax_capable Christoph Hellwig
2021-10-18 12:25 ` Gao Xiang
2021-10-19 15:44 ` [dm-devel] " Darrick J. Wong
2021-10-28 0:20 ` Dan Williams
2021-10-28 0:16 ` Dan Williams
2021-11-01 16:17 ` Mike Snitzer
2021-10-18 4:40 ` [PATCH 08/11] dm-linear: add a linear_dax_pgoff helper Christoph Hellwig
2021-10-28 1:32 ` Dan Williams
2021-11-01 16:18 ` Mike Snitzer
2021-10-18 4:40 ` [PATCH 09/11] dm-log-writes: add a log_writes_dax_pgoff helper Christoph Hellwig
2021-10-28 1:36 ` Dan Williams
2021-11-01 16:19 ` Mike Snitzer
2021-10-18 4:40 ` [PATCH 10/11] dm-stripe: add a stripe_dax_pgoff helper Christoph Hellwig
2021-10-28 1:41 ` Dan Williams
2021-11-01 16:21 ` Mike Snitzer
2021-10-18 4:40 ` [PATCH 11/11] dax: move bdev_dax_pgoff to fs/dax.c Christoph Hellwig
2021-10-28 1:44 ` Dan Williams
2021-10-27 20:46 ` futher decouple DAX from block devices Dan Williams
2021-10-28 23:51 ` Stephen Rothwell
2021-10-29 15:42 ` Dan Williams
2021-10-29 15:55 ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-10-29 16:16 ` Dan Williams
2021-11-03 17:59 ` Eric Sandeen
2021-11-04 8:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-11-04 17:34 ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-11-04 17:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-11-04 18:10 ` Dan Williams [this message]
2021-11-04 19:04 ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-11-05 3:09 ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-11-05 3:30 ` Matthew Wilcox
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