On Thu, Feb 01, 2018 at 05:13:40PM -0700, Dave Jiang wrote: > > > On 02/01/2018 04:44 PM, Dave Chinner wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 01, 2018 at 01:33:05PM -0700, Dave Jiang wrote: > >> When using realtime device (rtdev) with xfs where the data device is not > >> DAX capable, two issues arise. One is when data device is not DAX but the > >> realtime device is DAX capable, we currently disable DAX. > >> After passing this check, we are also not marking the inode as DAX capable. > >> This change will allow DAX enabled if the data device or the realtime > >> device is DAX capable. S_DAX will be marked for the inode if the file is > >> residing on a DAX capable device. This will prevent the case of rtdev is not > >> DAX and data device is DAX to create realtime files. > > > > I'm confused by this description. I'm not sure what is broken, nor > > what you are trying to fix. > > > > I think what you want to do is enable DAX on RT devices separately > > to the data device and vice versa? > > > > i.e. is this what you are trying to acheive? > > > > datadev dax rtdev dax DAX enabled on > > ----------- --------- -------------- > > no no neither > > yes no datadev > > no yes rtdev > > yes yes both > > ^ Yes that's pretty much what I was trying to say. I probably should've > just provided the table above. Ok, good to know I understood what you want to achieve. Now we've just got to work out how to do it. :) Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-xfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
