On Tue, Aug 3, 2021 at 12:11 AM Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi everyone! > > iomap has become very popular for this cycle, with seemingly a lot of > overlapping patches and whatnot. Does this accurately reflect all the > stuff that people are trying to send for 5.15? > > 1. So far, I think these v2 patches from Christoph are ready to go: > > iomap: simplify iomap_readpage_actor > iomap: simplify iomap_add_to_ioend > > 2. This is the v9 "iomap: Support file tail packing" patch from Gao, > with a rather heavily edited commit: > > iomap: support reading inline data from non-zero pos > > Should I wait for a v10 patch with spelling fixes as requested by > Andreas? And if there is a v10 submission, please update the commit > message. > > 3. Matthew also threw in a patch: > > iomap: Support inline data with block size < page size > > for which Andreas also sent some suggestions, so I guess I'm waiting for > a v2 of that patch? It looks to me like the last time he sent that > series (on 24 July) he incorporated Gao's patch as patch 1 of the > series? > > 4. Andreas has a patch: > > iomap: Fix some typos and bad grammar > > which looks more or less ready to go. > > 5. Christoph also had a series: > > RFC: switch iomap to an iterator model > > Which I reviewed and sent some comments for, but (AFAICT) haven't seen a > non-RFC resubmission yet. Is that still coming for 5.15? > > 6. Earlier, Eric Biggers had a patchset that made some iomap changes > ahead of porting f2fs to use directio. I /think/ those changes were > dropped in the latest submission because the intended use of those > changes (counters of the number of pages undergoing reads or writes, > iirc?) has been replaced with something simpler. IOWs, f2fs doesn't > need any iomap changes for 5.15, right? > > 7. Andreas also had a patchset: > > gfs2: Fix mmap + page fault deadlocks > > That I've left unread because Linus started complaining about patch 1. > Is that not going forward, then? Still working on it; it's way nastier than expected. > So, I /think/ that's all I've received for this next cycle. Did I miss > anything? Matthew said he might roll some of these up and send me a > pull request, which would be nice... :) > > --D > Andreas
