From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: "Pankaj Raghav (Samsung)" <pankaj.raghav@linux.dev>
Cc: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, lsf-pc@lists.linux-foundation.org,
Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>,
djwong@kernel.org, john.g.garry@oracle.com, willy@infradead.org,
hch@lst.de, ritesh.list@gmail.com, jack@suse.cz,
ojaswin@linux.ibm.com, Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
dchinner@redhat.com, Javier Gonzalez <javier.gonz@samsung.com>,
gost.dev@samsung.com, tytso@mit.edu, p.raghav@samsung.com,
vi.shah@samsung.com
Subject: Re: [LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] Buffered atomic writes
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2026 16:10:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260220151050.GA14064@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <sjuplc6ud6ym3qyn7qmhzpr3jzjxpf6wcza3s2cenvmwwibbxr@aorfpiuxf7qy>
On Fri, Feb 20, 2026 at 10:08:26AM +0000, Pankaj Raghav (Samsung) wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2026 at 11:20:36AM +0100, Pankaj Raghav wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Atomic (untorn) writes for Direct I/O have successfully landed in kernel
> > for ext4 and XFS[1][2]. However, extending this support to Buffered I/O
> > remains a contentious topic, with previous discussions often stalling due to
> > concerns about complexity versus utility.
> >
>
> Hi,
>
> Thanks a lot everyone for the input on this topic. I would like to
> summarize some of the important points discussed here so that it could
> be used as a reference for the talk and RFCs going forward:
>
> - There is a general consensus to add atomic support to buffered IO
> path.
I don't think that's quite true.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-02-20 15:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-02-13 10:20 Pankaj Raghav
2026-02-13 13:32 ` Ojaswin Mujoo
2026-02-16 9:52 ` Pankaj Raghav
2026-02-16 15:45 ` Andres Freund
2026-02-17 12:06 ` Jan Kara
2026-02-17 12:42 ` Pankaj Raghav
2026-02-17 16:21 ` Andres Freund
2026-02-18 1:04 ` Dave Chinner
2026-02-18 6:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2026-02-18 23:42 ` Dave Chinner
2026-02-17 16:13 ` Andres Freund
2026-02-17 18:27 ` Ojaswin Mujoo
2026-02-17 18:42 ` Andres Freund
2026-02-18 17:37 ` Jan Kara
2026-02-18 21:04 ` Andres Freund
2026-02-19 0:32 ` Dave Chinner
2026-02-17 18:33 ` Ojaswin Mujoo
2026-02-17 17:20 ` Ojaswin Mujoo
2026-02-18 17:42 ` [Lsf-pc] " Jan Kara
2026-02-18 20:22 ` Ojaswin Mujoo
2026-02-16 11:38 ` Jan Kara
2026-02-16 13:18 ` Pankaj Raghav
2026-02-17 18:36 ` Ojaswin Mujoo
2026-02-16 15:57 ` Andres Freund
2026-02-17 18:39 ` Ojaswin Mujoo
2026-02-18 0:26 ` Dave Chinner
2026-02-18 6:49 ` Christoph Hellwig
2026-02-18 12:54 ` Ojaswin Mujoo
2026-02-15 9:01 ` Amir Goldstein
2026-02-17 5:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2026-02-17 9:23 ` [Lsf-pc] " Amir Goldstein
2026-02-17 15:47 ` Andres Freund
2026-02-17 22:45 ` Dave Chinner
2026-02-18 4:10 ` Andres Freund
2026-02-18 6:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2026-02-18 6:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2026-02-20 10:08 ` Pankaj Raghav (Samsung)
2026-02-20 15:10 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
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