linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 18/22] staging: erofs: turn cache strategies into mount options

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Message-ID: <b5186ece-53c4-a1c9-98c1-f3b39d9bc607@huawei.com>
Date:   Wed, 31 Jul 2019 17:23:57 +0800
From:   Chao Yu <yuchao0@...wei.com>
To:     Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@...wei.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>
CC:     <linux-erofs@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <weidu.du@...wei.com>,
        Miao Xie <miaoxie@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 18/22] staging: erofs: turn cache strategies into mount
 options

On 2019/7/29 14:51, Gao Xiang wrote:
> Kill all kconfig cache strategies and turn them into mount options
> "cache_strategy={disable|readahead|readaround}".
> 
> As the first step, cached pages can still be usable after cache
> is disabled by remounting, and these pages will be fallen out
> over time, which can be refined in the later version if some
> requirement is needed. Update related document as well.
> 
> Suggested-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
> Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@...wei.com>

Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@...wei.com>

Thanks,