[External] Re: [PATCH] erofs: enable dax for chunk based regular file

Xin Yin yinxin.x at bytedance.com
Tue Jul 11 14:55:19 AEST 2023


On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 12:08 PM Gao Xiang <hsiangkao at linux.alibaba.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Xin,
>
> On 2023/7/11 12:02, Xin Yin wrote:
> > DAX can be used to share page cache between VMs, reducing guest memory
> > overhead. And chunk based data format is widely used for VM and
> > container image. So enable dax support for it, make erofs better used
> > for VM scenarios.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Xin Yin <yinxin.x at bytedance.com>
>
> I really think it's a regression honestly, how about updating
> the subject line to:
>
> "erofs: fix fsdax unavailability for chunk-based regular files"
>
> Fixes: c5aa903a59db ("erofs: support reading chunk-based uncompressed files")
>
OK , I will update and resend the new patch.

Thanks,
Xin Yin
> Thanks,
> Gao Xiang


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