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

[JeffleXu]

On 12/15/21 12:10 AM, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> 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:
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 10:54:20AM +0800, JeffleXu wrote:
>>>>> Hi Vivek,
>>>>>
>>>>> 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?
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Pushed to fuse.git#for-next.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>
>> 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.
> 

Got it. Thanks.

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Thanks,
Jeffle