Re: [RFC PATCH] iomap: generalize IOMAP_INLINE to cover tail-packing case

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On Wed, Jul 03, 2019 at 03:55:02PM +0800, Chao Yu wrote:
> Some filesystems like erofs/reiserfs have the ability to pack tail
> data into metadata, e.g.:
> IOMAP_MAPPED [0, 8192]
> IOMAP_INLINE [8192, 8200]
> 
> However current IOMAP_INLINE type has assumption that:
> - inline data should be locating at page #0.
> - inline size should equal to .i_size
> Those restriction fail to convert to use iomap IOMAP_INLINE in erofs,
> so this patch tries to relieve above limits to make IOMAP_INLINE more
> generic to cover tail-packing case.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@xxxxxxxxxx>

This looks good to me, but I'd also like to see a review and gfs2
testing from Andreas.




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