linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/64] fscache, cachefiles: Rewrite

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Date:   Mon, 29 Nov 2021 10:12:45 -0800
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-cachefs@...hat.com, Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>,
        Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@...il.com>,
        Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@...app.com>,
        linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org, Steve French <sfrench@...ba.org>,
        Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@...ewreck.org>,
        Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha@...hat.com>,
        Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@...merspace.com>,
        CIFS <linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@...radead.org>,
        Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@...istor.com>,
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        Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@...kov.net>,
        Shyam Prasad N <nspmangalore@...il.com>,
        v9fs-developer@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        Trond Myklebust <trondmy@...merspace.com>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Omar Sandoval <osandov@...ndov.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/64] fscache, cachefiles: Rewrite

On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 6:22 AM David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> The patchset is structured such that the first few patches disable fscache
> use by the network filesystems using it, remove the cachefiles driver
> entirely and as much of the fscache driver as can be got away with without
> causing build failures in the network filesystems.  The patches after that
> recreate fscache and then cachefiles, attempting to add the pieces in a
> logical order.  Finally, the filesystems are reenabled and then the very
> last patch changes the documentation.

Thanks, this all looks conceptually sane to me.

But I only really scanned the commit messages, not the actual new
code. That obviously needs all the usual testing and feedback from the
users of this all..

                    Linus