linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 00/61] fscache, cachefiles: Rewrite the I/O interface in terms of kiocb/iov

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Date:   Mon, 04 May 2020 13:54:33 -0400
From:   Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>
To:     David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Trond Myklebust <trondmy@...merspace.com>,
        Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@...app.com>,
        Steve French <sfrench@...ba.org>
Cc:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org, ceph-devel@...r.kernel.org,
        v9fs-developer@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/61] fscache, cachefiles: Rewrite the I/O
 interface in terms of kiocb/iov_iter

On Mon, 2020-05-04 at 18:07 +0100, David Howells wrote:
> 
>  (3) Make NFS, CIFS, Ceph, 9P work with it.  I'm hoping that Jeff Layton will
>      do Ceph.  As mentioned, I'm having a crack at NFS, but it's evolved a bit
>      since I last looked at it and it might be easier if I can palm that off
>      to someone more current in the NFS I/O code.
> 
> 

[...]

This looks like a really nice overhaul. I particularly love the
diffstat. Net removal of ~4000 lines!

I'll plan to draft up a patch for Ceph in the near future. The new API
seems to be quite different, so I imagine this will more or less be a
rip and replace on the old code.
-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>