Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 5 Jun 2019 11:22:04 -0500 | From | Goldwyn Rodrigues <> | Subject | Re: [Lsf-pc] [LSF/MM TOPIC] The end of the DAX experiment |
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Hi Dan/Jerome,
On 12:20 14/02, Dan Williams wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 12:09 PM Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 11:31:24AM -0800, Dan Williams wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 11:10 AM Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> wrote: > > > > I am just again working on my struct page mapping patchset as well as > > > > the generic page write protection that sits on top. I hope to be able > > > > to post the v2 in couple weeks. You can always look at my posting last > > > > year to see more details. > > > > > > Yes, I have that in mind as one of the contenders. However, it's not > > > clear to me that its a suitable fit for filesystem-reflink. Others > > > have floated the 'page proxy' idea, so it would be good to discuss the > > > merits of the general approaches. > > > > ... and my preferred option of putting pfn entries in the page cache. > > Another option to include the discussion. > > > Or is that what you meant by "page proxy"? > > Page proxy would be an object that a filesystem could allocate to > point back to a single physical 'struct page *'. The proxy would > contain an override for page->index.
Was there any outcome on this and its implementation? I am specifically interested in this for DAX support on btrfs/CoW: The TODO comment on top of dax_associate_entry() :)
If there are patches/git tree I could use to base my patches on, it would be nice.
-- Goldwyn
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