Re: [Lsf-pc] [LSF/MM TOPIC] The end of the DAX experiment

From: Dan Williams
Date: Thu Feb 14 2019 - 13:25:21 EST


On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 5:46 AM Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed 06-02-19 13:12:59, Dan Williams wrote:
> [...]
> > * Userfaultfd for file-backed mappings and DAX
>
> I assume that other topics are meant to be FS track but this one is MM,
> right?

Yes, but I think it is the lowest priority of all the noted sub-topics
in this proposal. The DAX-reflink discussion, where a given
physical-page may need to be mapped into multiple inodes at different
offsets, might be more fruitful to have as a joint discussion with MM.