From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-qk0-f199.google.com (mail-qk0-f199.google.com [209.85.220.199]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8ED36B0005 for ; Mon, 5 Feb 2018 01:59:46 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-qk0-f199.google.com with SMTP id d67so4632394qkb.7 for ; Sun, 04 Feb 2018 22:59:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com (mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com. [148.163.156.1]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id u13si79300qke.422.2018.02.04.22.59.45 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 04 Feb 2018 22:59:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from pps.filterd (m0098404.ppops.net [127.0.0.1]) by mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com (8.16.0.22/8.16.0.22) with SMTP id w156x3HZ050138 for ; Mon, 5 Feb 2018 01:59:44 -0500 Received: from e06smtp10.uk.ibm.com (e06smtp10.uk.ibm.com [195.75.94.106]) by mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com with ESMTP id 2fxcsdte3d-1 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 05 Feb 2018 01:59:44 -0500 Received: from localhost by e06smtp10.uk.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Mon, 5 Feb 2018 06:59:41 -0000 From: Chandan Rajendra Subject: Re: [LSF/MM TOPIC] File system memory management topics Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2018 12:31:04 +0530 In-Reply-To: <20180201143422.phir5f2wwv6udnqe@destiny> References: <20180201143422.phir5f2wwv6udnqe@destiny> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-Id: <9098480.msMr5zvJja@dhcp-9-109-247-41> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Josef Bacik Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, lsf-pc@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org On Thursday, February 1, 2018 8:04:22 PM IST Josef Bacik wrote: > Hello, > > I've been lazily working through various mm related issues with file systems for > the last couple of years and would like to talk about current progress and work > thats left to be done. Some of the topics I want to cover are > > * Metadata tracking, writeback, and reclaim > * Smarter fs cache shrinking > * Non-page size block size handling > The above list of items mentioned by Josef is very important (especially w.r.t Btrfs' subpage-blocksize support) for getting 4k blocksized filesystems to work well for architectures like PPC64 and AARCH64 which [can] have 64k page size. Hence I would request that these topics gets discussed during this year's LSF/MM summit. > Dave please tell me you are going to be there this year? It's going to be > completely useless for me to talk about this stuff if you aren't in the room. > These are all big topics in and of themselves so if we just need to get you, me, > Jan, and some poor MM guy locked in a room with a couple of bottles of liquor > until we figure it out then that's fine. > > I'm hoping to have the metadata tracking stuff fixed up and at least mergable by > LSF, but there's still stuff to be added to that infrastructure later on, and > the other topics we need to agree on a direction. Thanks, > -- chandan -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org