Re: [PATCH 00/13] dax, pmem: move cpu cache maintenance to libnvdimm

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 06:19:24PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> No, I mean a network filesystem like 9p or cifs or nfs.  If the memcpy
> is supposed to be performed by the backing device

struct backing_dev has no relation to the DAX code.  Even more so what's
the point of doing a DAXish memcpy in that case?  If we buffer in
memory for network I/O we should just use the page cache.

> (Also, the network filesystem might have a command, like RDMA has/will have, to ensure that the write has reached persistence)

I know very well due to my work for a DAX-backed pNFS layout.  But that
is mostly transparent to the NFS frontend code and won't use DAX
on the client at all.  Just pagecache as a source for RDMA READ/WRITE.