linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH v6 00/11] ext4: port direct I/O to iomap infrastructure

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Date:   Mon, 4 Nov 2019 17:04:07 +1100
From:   Matthew Bobrowski <mbobrowski@...browski.org>
To:     "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Cc:     jack@...e.cz, adilger.kernel@...ger.ca, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, hch@...radead.org,
        david@...morbit.com, darrick.wong@...cle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 00/11] ext4: port direct I/O to iomap infrastructure

Howdy Ted!

On Sun, Nov 03, 2019 at 02:20:40PM -0500, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> Hi Matthew, could you do me a favor?  For the next (and hopefully
> final :-) spin of this patch series, could you base it on the
> ext4.git's master branch.  Then pull in Darrick's iomap-for-next
> branch, and then apply your patches on top of that.
> 
> I attempted to do this with the v6 patch series --- see the tt/mb-dio
> branch --- and I described on another e-mail thread, I appear to have
> screwed up that patch conflicts, since it's causing a failure with
> diroead-nolock using a 1k block size.  Since this wasn't something
> that worked when you were first working on the patch set, this isn't
> something I'm going to consider blocking, especially since a flay test
> failure which happens 7% of the time, and using dioread_nolock with a
> sub-page blocksize isn't something that is going to be all that common
> (since it wasn't working at all up until now).
> 
> Still, I'm hoping that either Ritesh or you can figure out how my
> simple-minded handling of the patch conflict between your and his
> patch series can be addressed properly.

OK, I will try get around to this tonight. :)

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