linux-kernel - Re: lift the xfs writepage code into iomap v3

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Date:   Mon, 29 Jul 2019 18:17:05 -0700
From:   "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     Damien Le Moal <Damien.LeMoal@....com>,
        Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@...hat.com>,
        linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: lift the xfs writepage code into iomap v3

On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 11:50:12AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> this series cleans up the xfs writepage code and then lifts it to
> fs/iomap.c so that it could be use by other file system.  I've been
> wanting to this for a while so that I could eventually convert gfs2
> over to it, but I never got to it.  Now Damien has a new zonefs
> file system for semi-raw access to zoned block devices that would
> like to use the iomap code instead of reinventing it, so I finally
> had to do the work.

I've posted a branch against -rc2 for us all to work from:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux.git/log/?h=iomap-writeback

and will be emailing the patches shortly to the list for completeness.

--D

> 
> 
> Changes since v2:
>  - rebased to v5.3-rc1
>  - folded in a few changes from the gfs2 enablement series
> 
> Changes since v1:
>  - rebased to the latest xfs for-next tree
>  - keep the preallocated transactions for size updates
>  - rename list_pop to list_pop_entry and related cleanups
>  - better document the nofs context handling
>  - document that the iomap tracepoints are not a stable API