From: Ross Zwisler Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/19 v3] dax, ext4, xfs: Synchronous page faults Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 16:53:04 -0600 Message-ID: <20171013225304.GF29081@linux.intel.com> References: <20171011200603.27442-1-jack@suse.cz> <20171011224331.GB3666@dastard> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Dan Williams , 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 mga06.intel.com ([134.134.136.31]:1305 "EHLO mga06.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751339AbdJMWxG (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Oct 2017 18:53:06 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20171011224331.GB3666@dastard> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 09:43:31AM +1100, 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. I can work on making an fstest for this set, unless someone else has already started.