Re: [dm-devel] Proposal for annotating _unstable_ pages

2015-05-22 Thread Kent Overstreet
On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 11:17:59AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > Back when I was writing the stable pages patches, I observed that some of the > filesystems didn't hold the pages containing their own metadata stable during > writeback on a stable-writes device. The journalling filesystems were f

Re: [dm-devel] Proposal for annotating _unstable_ pages

2015-05-22 Thread Darrick J. Wong
On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 09:21:12PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > On Thu 21-05-15 11:09:55, Kent Overstreet wrote: > > On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 06:54:53PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > > > On Wed 20-05-15 18:04:40, Kent Overstreet wrote: > > > > > Yeah. I never figured out a sane way to migrate pages and keep

Re: Proposal for annotating _unstable_ pages

2015-05-21 Thread Jan Kara
On Thu 21-05-15 11:09:55, Kent Overstreet wrote: > On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 06:54:53PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > > On Wed 20-05-15 18:04:40, Kent Overstreet wrote: > > > > Yeah. I never figured out a sane way to migrate pages and keep > > > > everything > > > > else happy. Daniel Phillips is havin

Re: Proposal for annotating _unstable_ pages

2015-05-21 Thread Kent Overstreet
On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 06:54:53PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > On Wed 20-05-15 18:04:40, Kent Overstreet wrote: > > > Yeah. I never figured out a sane way to migrate pages and keep everything > > > else happy. Daniel Phillips is having a go at page forking for tux3; > > > let's > > > see if the que

Re: Proposal for annotating _unstable_ pages

2015-05-21 Thread Jan Kara
On Wed 20-05-15 18:04:40, Kent Overstreet wrote: > > Yeah. I never figured out a sane way to migrate pages and keep everything > > else happy. Daniel Phillips is having a go at page forking for tux3; let's > > see if the questions about that get resolved. > > That would be great, we need somethi

Proposal for annotating _unstable_ pages

2015-05-20 Thread Kent Overstreet
On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 01:10:55PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 08:42:00AM -0700, Kent Overstreet wrote: > > Also, stable pages - what's been going on there? Last I heard you were > > talking > > about using the page migration code to do COW, did anything come of that? I