linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v12 00/20] DAX: Page cache bypass for filesystems on memory storage

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Message-ID: <20150112144757.GE5661@wil.cx>
Date:	Mon, 12 Jan 2015 09:47:57 -0500
From:	Matthew Wilcox <willy@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@...ux.intel.com>,
	Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@...el.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Milosz Tanski <milosz@...in.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 00/20] DAX: Page cache bypass for filesystems on
 memory storage

On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 12:47:14AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Jan 2015 10:41:43 -0800 Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 09:12:11AM -0500, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > > On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 06:03:47AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > > What is the status of this patch set?
> > > 
> > > I have no outstanding bug reports against it.  Linus told me that he
> > > wants to see it come through Andrew's tree.  I have an email two weeks
> > > ago from Andrew saying that it's on his list.  I would love to see it
> > > merged since it's almost a year old at this point.
> > 
> > And since then another month and aother merge window has passed.  Is
> > there any way to speed up merging big patch sets like this one?
> 
> I took a look at dax last time and found it to be unreviewable due to
> lack of design description, objectives and code comments.  Hopefully
> that's been addressed - I should get back to it fairly soon as I chew
> through merge window and holiday backlog.

Now that Jens has merged patches 1 and 2 into his block tree, you don't
need to spend any time looking at those.  If I could trouble you to
merge patches 3 & 4 through mm, the rest of the patches are VFS/ext2,
and maye we could merge those through Al's tree instead of taking your
valuable time?
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