On Mon, Sep 16, 2024 at 02:29:49PM GMT, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Fri, Sep 13, 2024 at 02:11:22PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote: > > So this issue it new to me as well. One of the items this cycle is the > > work to enable support for block sizes that are larger than page sizes > > via the large block size (LBS) series that's been sitting in -next for a > > long time. That work specifically targets xfs and builds on top of the > > large folio support. > > > > If the support for large folios is going to be reverted in xfs then I > > see no point to merge the LBS work now. So I'm holding off on sending > > that pull request until a decision is made (for xfs). As far as I > > understand, supporting larger block sizes will not be meaningful without > > large folio support. > > This is unwarranted; please send this pull request. We're not going to > rip out all of the infrastructure although we might end up disabling it > by default. There's a bunch of other work queued up behind that, and not > having it in Linus' tree is just going to make everything more painful. Now that there's a reproducer and hopefully soon a fix I think we can try and merge this next week.
