On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 07:17:07PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > On Tue 27-09-16 10:01:18, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 06:43:33PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > > > So far we did not set BH_New for newly allocated blocks for DAX inodes > > > in __xfs_get_blocks() because we wanted to avoid zeroing done in generic > > > DAX code which was racy. Now the zeroing is gone so we can remove this > > > workaround and return BH_New for newly allocated blocks. DAX will use this > > > information to properly update mappings of the file. > > > > __xfs_get_blocks isn't used by the DAX code any more. > > xfs_file_iomap_begin should already be doing the right thing for now. > > OK, the changelog is stale but I actually took care to integrate this with > your iomap patches and for the new invalidation code in iomap_dax_actor() > to work we need this additional information...
So this applies to the iomap-4.9-dax branch in the XFS tree? https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/dgc/linux-xfs.git/log/?h=iomap-4.9-dax i.e. Do I need to merge the patchset with that branch? Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner da...@fromorbit.com _______________________________________________ Linux-nvdimm mailing list Linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-nvdimm
