Re: [PATCH v6 4/5] dax: for truncate/hole-punch, do zeroing through the driver if possible

From	"Verma, Vishal L" <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH v6 4/5] dax: for truncate/hole-punch, do zeroing through the driver if possible
Date	2016-05-10 21:50 +0200
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On Tue, 2016-05-10 at 12:25 -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Hi Vishal,
> 
> can you also pick up the my patch to add a low-level __dax_zero_range
> that I cced you on?  That way we can avoid a nasty merge conflict with
> my xfs/iomap changes.

Good idea - I'll do that for the next posting. I'll wait a day or two
for any additional reviews/acks.

I'm looking to get all this into a branch in the nvdimm tree once Jan
splits up his dax-locking series..

Mostly I guess I'm looking for a yay or nay for the block layer changes
(patch 2). Jens?

Thread

[PATCH v6 0/5] dax: handling media errors (clear-on-zero only) Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com> - 2016-05-10 21:00 +0200
  [PATCH v6 4/5] dax: for truncate/hole-punch, do zeroing through the driver if possible Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com> - 2016-05-10 21:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v6 4/5] dax: for truncate/hole-punch, do zeroing through  the driver if possible Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-05-10 21:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v6 4/5] dax: for truncate/hole-punch, do zeroing through  the driver if possible "Verma, Vishal L" <vishal.l.verma@intel.com> - 2016-05-10 21:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v6 4/5] dax: for truncate/hole-punch, do zeroing through  the driver if possible Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> - 2016-05-11 10:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v6 4/5] dax: for truncate/hole-punch, do zeroing through  the driver if possible "Verma, Vishal L" <vishal.l.verma@intel.com> - 2016-05-11 19:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v6 4/5] dax: for truncate/hole-punch, do zeroing through  the driver if possible "Verma, Vishal L" <vishal.l.verma@intel.com> - 2016-05-11 20:50 +0200
  [PATCH v6 2/5] dax: enable dax in the presence of known media errors (badblocks) Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com> - 2016-05-10 21:00 +0200
  [PATCH v6 5/5] dax: fix a comment in dax_zero_page_range and dax_truncate_page Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com> - 2016-05-10 21:00 +0200
  [PATCH v6 3/5] dax: use sb_issue_zerout instead of calling dax_clear_sectors Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com> - 2016-05-10 21:00 +0200

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