On Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 09:27:37PM +0530, Ritesh Harjani (IBM) wrote: Assuming Ted acks this series, I have a fun question: Can we merge this for 6.13 alongside the single-fsblock xfs implementation? And how do we want to merge this? It looks like Jens took only the first three patches from John's series, leaving this: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux-block.git/log/?h=for-6.13/block-atomic [PATCH v10 4/8] fs: Export generic_atomic_write_valid() John Garry [PATCH v10 5/8] fs: iomap: Atomic write support John Garry [PATCH v10 6/8] xfs: Support atomic write for statx John Garry [PATCH v10 7/8] xfs: Validate atomic writes John Garry [PATCH v10 8/8] xfs: Support setting FMODE_CAN_ATOMIC_WRITE John Garry Note the fs and iomap stuff is not in that branch. So should xfs create a 6.13 merge branch from block-atomic containing all of its new stuff including the xfs atomic writes changes? And then I guess merge the ext4 changes too?? ext4 code coming in via xfs, yuck. Or should cem just create a 6.13 merge branch with everything *except* the atomic writes stuff? Call that branch "xfs-6.13-merge". Then one of us with commit privileges creates a separate branch off of block-atomic, add both the xfs series and then the ext4 series? Call that branch "fs-atomic-writes". Then I guess cem could create a third branch from xfs-6.13-merge, merge the fs-atomic-writes branch into that third branch, and push that third branch to for-next on git.kernel.org so it can get picked up by rothwell's for-next and fs-next? (Note that Ted could do likewise with ext4; cem doesn't have to be part of this.) Does that work for people? The "sending multiple branches to linus" way is the best method I can think of, though it's more release manager work. --D > v2 -> v3: > ========== > 1. Patch-1 adds an "experimental" string in dmesg log during mount when EXT4 > detects that it is capable of doing DIO atomic writes on a given device > with min and max unit details. > 2. Patch-4 has been updated to avoid returning -ENOTBLK (in ext4_iomap_end) > if the request belongs to atomic write. This patch also adds a WARN_ON_ONCE() > if atomic write ever fallback to buffered-io (to catch any unwanted bugs in the future). > More details in the commit log of patch-4. > 3. Collected RBs tag from John for Patch 2 & 3. > > [v2]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-ext4/cover.1729944406.git.ritesh.list@xxxxxxxxx/ > > Previous cover letter log: > > In v2, we had split the series and this one only takes care of > atomic writes for single fsblock. > That means for now this gets only enabled on bs < ps systems on ext4. > Enablement of atomic writes for bigalloc (multi-fsblock support) is still > under discussion and may require general consensus within the filesystem > community [1]. > > This series adds the base feature support to enable atomic writes in > direct-io path for ext4. We advertise the minimum and the maximum atomic > write unit sizes via statx on a regular file. > > This series allows users to utilize atomic write support using - > 1. on bs < ps systems via - mkfs.ext4 -F -b 16384 /dev/sda > > This can then be utilized using - > xfs_io -fdc "pwrite -V 1 -A -b16k 0 16k" /mnt/f1 > > This is built on top of John's DIO atomic write series for XFS [2]. > The VFS and block layer enablement for atomic writes were merged already. > > > [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-ext4/87jzdvmqfz.fsf@xxxxxxxxx > [2]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-xfs/20241019125113.369994-1-john.g.garry@xxxxxxxxxx/ > > > Changelogs: > =========== > PATCH -> PATCH v2: > - addressed review comments from John and Darrick. > - renamed ext4_sb_info variables names: fs_awu* -> s_awu* > - [PATCH]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-ext4/cover.1729825985.git.ritesh.list@xxxxxxxxx/ > > RFC -> PATCH: > - Dropped RFC tag > - Last RFC was posted a while ago but back then a lot of VFS and block layer > interfaces were still not merged. Those are now merged, thanks to John and > everyone else. > - [RFC] - https://lore.kernel.org/linux-ext4/cover.1709356594.git.ritesh.list@xxxxxxxxx/ > > > > Ritesh Harjani (IBM) (4): > ext4: Add statx support for atomic writes > ext4: Check for atomic writes support in write iter > ext4: Support setting FMODE_CAN_ATOMIC_WRITE > ext4: Do not fallback to buffered-io for DIO atomic write > > fs/ext4/ext4.h | 9 +++++++++ > fs/ext4/file.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ > fs/ext4/inode.c | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++++----- > fs/ext4/super.c | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 4 files changed, 87 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) > > -- > 2.46.0 > >