[Virtio-fs] [PATCH v7 0/6] virtiofsd: support per inode DAX

[Miklos Szeredi]

On Tue, 14 Dec 2021 at 16:51, JeffleXu <jefflexu at linux.alibaba.com> wrote:
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> On 12/14/21 6:17 PM, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > On Mon, 13 Dec 2021 at 19:03, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal at redhat.com> wrote:
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> >> On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 10:54:20AM +0800, JeffleXu wrote:
> >>> Hi Vivek,
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> >>> Besides, I'd like to know that, to make the per inode DAX feature merged
> >>> into v5.17, shall the patches for virtiofsd also be ready during the
> >>> merge window?
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> >> I think having virtiofsd patches ready is not a strict requirement to
> >> merge kernel patches. I will provide my ack for the kernel patches.
> >> After that it is up to the Miklos to accept or reject those patches.
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> > Pushed to fuse.git#for-next.
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> > The user API needed porting, the userspace part will have to take that
> > into account.  The only other change I did was replace the !!
> > construct with a (bool) cast.
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> Hi, what do you mean by 'The user API needed porting'? Do you mean this
> patch set for virtiofsd?

What I meant is that the  FUSE_HAS_INODE_DAX value had to be changed
due to already pushed changes.   So any userspace code relying on the
old value in the original patchset would no longer work.

Thanks,
Miklos