From: Dave Chinner Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/11] ext4: Convert ext4 DAX IO to iomap framework Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2016 09:12:35 +1100 Message-ID: <20161101221235.GB9920@dastard> References: <1478034381-19037-1-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Ted Tso , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org To: Jan Kara Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1478034381-19037-1-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 10:06:10PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > Hello, > > this patch set converts ext4 DAX IO paths to the new iomap framework and > removes the old bh-based DAX functions. As a result ext4 gains PMD page > fault support, also some other minor bugs get fixed. The patch set is based > on Ross' DAX PMD page fault support series [1]. It passes xfstests both in > DAX and non-DAX mode. > > The question is how shall we merge this. If Dave is pulling PMD patches through > XFS tree, then these patches could go there as well (chances for conflicts > with other ext4 stuff are relatively low) or Dave could just export a stable > branch with PMD series which Ted would just pull... I plan to grab Ross's PMD series in the next couple of days and I'll push it out as a stable topic branch once I've sanity tested it. I don't really want to take a big chunk of ext4 stuff through the XFS tree if it can be avoided.... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com