Re: [PATCH v7 1/1] f2fs: dax: implement direct access

From: Chao Yu
Date: Tue Jul 18 2017 - 02:47:57 EST


On 2017/7/18 11:45, sunqiuyang wrote:
> From: Qiuyang Sun <sunqiuyang@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> This patch implements Direct Access (DAX) in F2FS, including:
> - a mount option to choose whether to enable DAX or not
> - read/write and mmap of regular files in the DAX way
> - zero-out of unaligned partial blocks in the DAX way
> - garbage collection of DAX files, by mapping both old and new physical
> addresses of a data page into memory and copy data between them directly
> - incompatibility of DAX with inline data, atomic or volatile write, etc.
>
> Signed-off-by: Qiuyang Sun <sunqiuyang@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@xxxxxxxxxx>