On Thursday, February 1, 2018 8:04:22 PM IST Josef Bacik wrote: > Hello, > > I've been lazily working through various mm related issues with file systems for > the last couple of years and would like to talk about current progress and work > thats left to be done. Some of the topics I want to cover are > > * Metadata tracking, writeback, and reclaim > * Smarter fs cache shrinking > * Non-page size block size handling > The above list of items mentioned by Josef is very important (especially w.r.t Btrfs' subpage-blocksize support) for getting 4k blocksized filesystems to work well for architectures like PPC64 and AARCH64 which [can] have 64k page size. Hence I would request that these topics gets discussed during this year's LSF/MM summit. > Dave please tell me you are going to be there this year? It's going to be > completely useless for me to talk about this stuff if you aren't in the room. > These are all big topics in and of themselves so if we just need to get you, me, > Jan, and some poor MM guy locked in a room with a couple of bottles of liquor > until we figure it out then that's fine. > > I'm hoping to have the metadata tracking stuff fixed up and at least mergable by > LSF, but there's still stuff to be added to that infrastructure later on, and > the other topics we need to agree on a direction. Thanks, > -- chandan -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>
