Messages in this thread | | | From | Jeff Moyer <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] dax: move writeback calls into the filesystems | Date | Mon, 08 Feb 2016 15:58:44 -0500 |
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Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> writes:
> I agree the mount option needs to die, and I fully grok the reasoning. > What I'm concerned with is that a system using fully-DAX-aware > applications is forced to incur the overhead of maintaining *sync > semantics, periodic sync(2) in particular, even if it is not relying > on those semantics. > > However, like I said in my other mail, we can solve that with > alternate interfaces to persistent memory if that becomes an issue and > not require that "disable *sync" capability to come through DAX.
What do you envision these alternate interfaces looking like?
-Jeff
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