Re: [PATCH v15 16/17] iomap: Convert iomap_add_to_ioend to take a folio

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On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 05:12:19PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> I /am/ beginning to wonder, though -- seeing as Christoph and Matthew
> both have very large patchsets changing things in fs/iomap/, how would
> you like those landed?  Christoph's iterator refactoring looks like it
> could be ready to go for 5.15.  Matthew's folio series looks like a
> mostly straightforward conversion for iomap, except that it has 91
> patches as a hard dependency.
> 
> Since most of the iomap changes for 5.15 aren't directly related to
> folios, I think I prefer iomap-for-next to be based directly off -rcX
> like usual, though I don't know where that leaves the iomap folio
> conversion.  I suppose one could add them to a branch that itself is a
> result of the folio and iomap branches, or leave them off for 5.16?

Maybe willy has a different opinion, but I thought the plan was to have
the based folio enablement in 5.15, and then do things like the iomap
conversion in the the next merge window.  If we have everything ready
this window we could still add a branch that builds on top of both
the iomap and folio trees, though.



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