On Wed, Nov 02, 2016 at 09:12:35AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote: > 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.... Yea, we also need to figure out how to get Jan's "dax: Clear dirty bits after flushing caches" set merged, which is mostly MM stuff and I think will go through akpm's tree? That set is also based on my PMD stuff. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
