[dm-devel] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v12 4/7] dm: enable synchronous dax

Pankaj Gupta pagupta at redhat.com
Wed Jun 12 02:23:09 UTC 2019


> On Tue, Jun 11 2019 at 12:37pm -0400,
> Pankaj Gupta <pagupta at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > This patch sets dax device 'DAXDEV_SYNC' flag if all the target
> > devices of device mapper support synchrononous DAX. If device
> > mapper consists of both synchronous and asynchronous dax devices,
> > we don't set 'DAXDEV_SYNC' flag.
> > 
> > 'dm_table_supports_dax' is refactored to pass 'iterate_devices_fn'
> > as argument so that the callers can pass the appropriate functions.
> > 
> > Suggested-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer at redhat.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Pankaj Gupta <pagupta at redhat.com>
> 
> Thanks, and for the benefit of others, passing function pointers like
> this is perfectly fine IMHO because this code is _not_ in the fast
> path.  These methods are only for device creation.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer at redhat.com>

Thank you, Mike

Best regards,
Pankaj

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