Re: [PATCH] block/psi: make PSI annotations of submit_bio only work for file pages

[Jens Axboe]

On 3/30/22 7:04 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 09:00:46AM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote:
>> If you want type distinction, we should move it all into MM code, like
>> Christoph is saying. Were swap code handles anon refaults and the page
>> cache code handles file refaults. This would be my preferred layering,
>> and my original patch did that: https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/7/22/1070.
> 
> FYI, I started redoing that version and I think with all the cleanups
> to filemap.c and the readahead code this can be done fairly nicely now:
> 
> http://git.infradead.org/users/hch/block.git/commitdiff/666abb29c6db870d3941acc5ac19e83fbc72cfd4

This looks way better than hiding it deep down in the block layer.

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Jens Axboe