[dm-devel] dm stripe: add DAX support

[Kani, Toshimitsu]

On Tue, 2016-07-12 at 22:01 -0400, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 12 2016 at  6:22pm -0400,
> Kani, Toshimitsu <toshi.kani at hpe.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2016-06-24 at 14:29 -0400, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> > >  
 :
> Thanks for putting this summary together.  Unfortunately none of the DM
> changes can be queued for 4.8 until Jens takes the 2 block core patches:
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9196021/
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9196019/
> 
> Not sure what the hold up and/or issue is with them.  But I've asked
> twice (and implicilty a 3rd time here).  Hopefully they land in time for
> 4.8.

Hi Jens,

Can you take the two patches above?  These patches add QUEUE_FLAG_DAX and its
sysfs show func.  They allow device-mapper to set dax-capability based on its
configuration, and also allow user applications to check dax-capability via
sysfs.

Thanks,
-Toshi