On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 06:58:17PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 01:37:28AM +0000, Jane Chu wrote: > > On 10/21/2021 4:31 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > Looking over the series I have serious doubts that overloading the > > > slow path clear poison operation over the fast path read/write > > > path is such a great idea. > > Why would data recovery after a media error ever be considered a > fast/hot path? Not sure what you're replying to (the text is from me, the mail you are repling to is fom Jane), but my point is that the read/write got path should not be overloaded with data recovery. > A normal read/write to a fsdax file would not pass the > flag, which skips the poison checking with whatever MCE consequences > that has, right? Exactly! > pwritev2(..., RWF_RECOVER_DATA) should be infrequent enough that > carefully stepping around dax_direct_access only has to be faster than > restoring from backup, I hope? Yes. And thus be kept as separate as possible. -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
