On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 3:02 PM Mike Snitzer <snit...@kernel.org> wrote:

>
> Also Joe, for you proposed dm-thinp design where you distinquish
> between "provision" and "reserve": Would it make sense for REQ_META
> (e.g. all XFS metadata) with REQ_PROVISION to be treated as an
> LBA-specific hard request?  Whereas REQ_PROVISION on its own provides
> more freedom to just reserve the length of blocks? (e.g. for XFS
> delalloc where LBA range is unknown, but dm-thinp can be asked to
> reserve space to accomodate it).
>

My proposal only involves 'reserve'.  Provisioning will be done as part of
the usual io path.

- Joe
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