linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 00/73] XArray version 4

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Date:   Wed, 6 Dec 2017 12:45:49 +1100
From:   Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc:     Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@...rosoft.com>,
        Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        Rehas Sachdeva <aquannie@...il.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        linux-nilfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/73] XArray version 4

On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 04:40:46PM -0800, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> From: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@...rosoft.com>
> 
> I looked through some notes and decided this was version 4 of the XArray.
> Last posted two weeks ago, this version includes a *lot* of changes.
> I'd like to thank Dave Chinner for his feedback, encouragement and
> distracting ideas for improvement, which I'll get to once this is merged.

BTW, you need to fix the "To:" line on your patchbombs:

> To: unlisted-recipients: ;, no To-header on input <@gmail-pop.l.google.com> 

This bad email address getting quoted to the cc line makes some MTAs
very unhappy.

> 
> Highlights:
>  - Over 2000 words of documentation in patch 8!  And lots more kernel-doc.
>  - The page cache is now fully converted to the XArray.
>  - Many more tests in the test-suite.
> 
> This patch set is not for applying.  0day is still reporting problems,
> and I'd feel bad for eating someone's data.  These patches apply on top
> of a set of prepatory patches which just aren't interesting.  If you
> want to see the patches applied to a tree, I suggest pulling my git tree:
> http://git.infradead.org/users/willy/linux-dax.git/shortlog/refs/heads/xarray-2017-12-04
> I also left out the idr_preload removals.  They're still in the git tree,
> but I'm not looking for feedback on them.

I'll give this a quick burn this afternoon and see what catches fire...

Cheers,

Dave.

-- 
Dave Chinner
david@...morbit.com