From: Dan Williams Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/19 v3] dax, ext4, xfs: Synchronous page faults Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 18:18:54 -0700 Message-ID: References: <20171011200603.27442-1-jack@suse.cz> <20171011224331.GB3666@dastard> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Cc: Jan Kara , linux-fsdevel , linux-ext4 , linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig , Ross Zwisler , Ted Tso , "Darrick J. Wong" To: Dave Chinner Return-path: Received: from mail-oi0-f43.google.com ([209.85.218.43]:52287 "EHLO mail-oi0-f43.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752024AbdJLBSz (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Oct 2017 21:18:55 -0400 Received: by mail-oi0-f43.google.com with SMTP id c202so5902477oih.9 for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2017 18:18:55 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20171011224331.GB3666@dastard> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 3:43 PM, Dave Chinner wrote: > On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 02:18:06PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 1:05 PM, Jan Kara wrote: >> > Anyway, here are the patches and AFAICT the series is pretty much complete >> > so we can start thinking how to merge this. Changes to ext4 / XFS are pretty >> > minimal so either tree is fine I guess. Comments are welcome. >> >> I'd like to propose taking this through the nvdimm tree. Some of these >> changes make the MAP_DIRECT support for ext4 easier, so I'd like to >> rebase that support on top and carry both. > > This functionality needs to be exercised and stressed by fstests > in some way before it gets merged. Yes, and man page updates for mmap(2).