linux-ext4 - Re: remove the nobh helpers v2

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Message-ID: <Yq9ExtTRAx1fqORt@casper.infradead.org>
Date:   Sun, 19 Jun 2022 16:46:14 +0100
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>, Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@...nel.org>,
        Konstantin Komarov <almaz.alexandrovich@...agon-software.com>,
        linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jfs-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        ntfs3@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: remove the nobh helpers v2

On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 07:37:09AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> this series (against the pagecache for-next branch) removes the nobh
> helpers which are a variant of the "normal" buffer head helpers with
> special tradeoffs for machines with a lot of highmem, and thus rather
> obsolete.  They pass xfstests, or in case of jfs at least get as far
> as the baseline.

Thanks, applied & pushed out to the for-next branch.