Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] dax: require 'struct page' and other fixups

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On Sun, 1 Oct 2017 16:15:06 -0700 Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 1, 2017 at 2:59 PM, Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> [..]
> > The "capacity tax" had nothing to do with it - the major problem
> > with self hosting struct pages was that page locks can be hot and
> > contention on them will rapidly burn through write cycles on the
> > pmem. That's still a problem, yes?
> 
> It was an early concern we had, but it has not born out in practice,
> and stopped worrying about it 2 years ago when the ZONE_DEVICE
> infrastructure was merged.

These are weighty matters and should have been covered in the
changelogs, please.  Could you send along a few paragraphs which
summarise these thoughts and I'll add them in?

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