Re: [LSF/MM TOPIC] Future direction of DAX

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On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 9:25 PM,  <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 05:20:08PM -0700, Ross Zwisler wrote:
>> We still have a lot of work to do, though, and I'd like to propose a discussion
>> around what features people would like to see enabled in the coming year as
>> well as what what use cases their customers have that we might not be aware of.
>
> +1 to the discussion
>
>> - Jan suggested [2] that we could use the radix tree as a cache to service DAX
>>   faults without needing to call into the filesystem.  Are there any issues
>>   with this approach, and should we move forward with it as an optimization?
>
> Ahem.  I believe I proposed this at last year's LSFMM.  And I sent
> patches to start that work.  And Dan blocked it.  So I'm not terribly
> amused to see somebody else given credit for the idea.
>

I "blocked" moving the phys to virt translation out of the driver
since that mapping lifetime is device specific.

However, I think caching the file offset to physical sector/address
result is a great idea.

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