On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 08:22:07AM +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > On 10/22/20 5:22 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > Hmm. You are aware, of course, that hch et al are working on replacing bhs > with iomap, right? $ git shortlog --author=Wilcox origin/master -- fs/iomap |head -1 Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) (17): But actually, I don't see anyone working on a mass migration of filesystems from either using BHs directly or using the mpage code to using iomap. I have a summer student for next summer who I'm going to let loose on this problem, but I fear buffer_heads will be with us for a long time to come. I mean, who's going to convert reiserfs to iomap? $ git log --no-merges --since=2015-01-01 origin/master fs/reiserfs |grep -c ^comm 130 Not exactly a thriving development community. It doesn't even support fallocate. > So wouldn't it be more useful to concentrate on the iomap code, and ensure > that _that_ is working correctly? Did that one first, then did mpage_readpage(), now I've moved on to block_read_full_page(). Now I'm going to go back and redo iomap with everything I learned doing block_read_full_page(). It's going to use blk_completion.
