linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/6] ceph: convert to new netfs read helpers

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Date:   Wed, 27 Jan 2021 23:50:57 +0100
From:   Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@...il.com>
To:     Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>
Cc:     Ceph Development <ceph-devel@...r.kernel.org>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-cachefs@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] ceph: convert to new netfs read helpers

On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 2:41 PM Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> This patchset converts ceph to use the new netfs readpage, write_begin,
> and readahead helpers to handle buffered reads. This is a substantial
> reduction in code in ceph, but shouldn't really affect functionality in
> any way.
>
> Ilya, if you don't have any objections, I'll plan to let David pull this
> series into his tree to be merged with the netfs API patches themselves.

Sure, that works for me.

I would have expected that the new netfs infrastructure is pushed
to a public branch that individual filesystems could peruse, but since
David's set already includes patches for AFS and NFS, let's tag along.

Thanks,

                Ilya