linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] squashfs: Migrate from ll_rw

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Message-ID: <20200408062415.GA25951@lst.de>
Date:   Wed, 8 Apr 2020 08:24:15 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Philippe Liard <pliard@...gle.com>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, phillip@...ashfs.org.uk,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, groeck@...omium.org,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] squashfs: Migrate from ll_rw_block usage to BIO

On Fri, Apr 03, 2020 at 10:37:15AM +0900, Philippe Liard wrote:
> This is lower priority for us now but I agree that it would be good to land it.
> This is my first patch being approved so I'm not familiar with the next steps.
> Can you land it yourself or is there something more that I should do?

Normally Phillip should pick it up as the squashfs maintainer, but he
has been last active about a year and a half ago.

Andrew, is this something you could pick up through the linux-mm tree?

> 
> 
> On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 12:35 AM Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 10:20:33AM +0900, Philippe Liard wrote:
> > > On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 6:28 PM Philippe Liard <pliard@...gle.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 5:37 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Sorry for the empty reply.
> > > > >
> > > > > This was meant to say that the patch looks good to me:
> > > > >
> > > > > Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
> > > >
> > > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > FYI I'm unfortunately no longer observing the 40% impact announced in the
> > > commit description after many optimizations landed in the Chrome OS VM
> > > infrastructure.
> > >
> > > Hopefully moving to BIO is still desirable though. Thank you in any case for
> > > your help/guidance and all the time you spent reviewing this.
> >
> > Do you still plan to submit the patch?  I think it is a major cleanup
> > of the codebase, so I'd like to see it land.
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