Re: [PATCH v11 1/8] dax: Introduce holder for dax_device

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On 3/30/2022 9:18 AM, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 08:49:29AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 06:58:21PM +0800, Shiyang Ruan wrote:
>>> As the code I pasted before, pmem driver will subtract its ->data_offset,
>>> which is byte-based. And the filesystem who implements ->notify_failure()
>>> will calculate the offset in unit of byte again.
>>>
>>> So, leave its function signature byte-based, to avoid repeated conversions.
>>
>> I'm actually fine either way, so I'll wait for Dan to comment.
> 
> FWIW I'd convinced myself that the reason for using byte units is to
> make it possible to reduce the pmem failure blast radius to subpage
> units... but then I've also been distracted for months. :/
> 

Yes, thanks Darrick!  I recall that.
Maybe just add a comment about why byte unit is used?

thanks!
-jane

> --D





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