linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/14] Clean up the writeback paths

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Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2023 13:51:17 -0700
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@...radead.org>,
 Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-block@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/14] Clean up the writeback paths

On 12/15/23 1:02 PM, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
> I don't think any of this conflicts with the writeback refactoring that
> Christoph has kindly taken over from me, although we might want to redo
> patch 13 on that infrastructure rather than using write_cache_pages().
> That can be a later addition.
> 
> Most of these patches verge on the trivial, converting filesystems that
> just use block_write_full_page() to use mpage_writepages().  But as we
> saw with Christoph's earlier patchset, there can be some "interesting"
> gotchas, and I clearly haven't tested the majority of filesystems I've
> touched here.
> 
> Patches 3 & 4 get rid of a lot of stack usage on architectures with
> larger page sizes; 1024 bytes on 64-bit systems with 64KiB pages.
> It starts to open the door to larger folio sizes on all architectures,
> but it's certainly not enough yet.
> 
> Patch 14 is kind of trivial, but it's nice to get that simplification in.

Series looks good to me:

Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>

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Jens Axboe