On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 7:21 AM, Kani, Toshi <toshi.k...@hpe.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2018-09-10 at 08:54 -0400, Jeff Moyer wrote:
>> "Kani, Toshi" <toshi.k...@hpe.com> writes:
>>
>> > I noticed that both ext4_da_aops and ext4_dax_aops are used on DAX
>> > mounted ext4 files.  Looking at open() path:
>>
>> Eek.  How did you notice this?
>
> I tested sync path on DAX files to see if it flushes processor cache
> properly. Then I noticed that it sometimes does, but sometimes doesn't.
> Looking into function traces, I realized that ext4_dax_writepages() and
> ext4_writepages() are called depending on their file status.

Yikes, and nice find!
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