Re: [PATCH 0/20 v3] dax: Clear dirty bits after flushing caches

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On Mon 17-10-16 12:59:55, Ross Zwisler wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 10:47:32AM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> 
> > This week I plan to rebase both series on top of rc1 + your THP patches so
> > that we can move on with merging the stuff.
> 
> Yea...so how are we going to coordinate merging of these series for the v4.10
> merge window?  My series mostly changes DAX, but it also changes XFS, ext2 and
> ext4.  I think the plan right now is to have Dave Chinner take it through his
> XFS tree.
> 
> Your first series is mostly mm changes with some DAX sprinkled in, and your
> second series touches dax, mm and all 3 DAX filesystems.  
> 
> What is the best way to handle all this?  Have it go through one central tree
> (-MM?), even though the changes touch code that exists outside of that trees
> normal domain (like the FS code)?  Have my series go through the XFS tree and
> yours through -MM, and give Linus a merge resolution patch?  Something else?

For your changes to go through XFS tree is IMO fine (changes outside of XFS
& DAX are easy). Let me do the rebase first and then discuss how to merge
my patches after that...

								Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR
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