From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Pankaj Raghav <p.raghav@samsung.com>,
Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
Christian Theune <ct@flyingcircus.io>,
linux-mm@kvack.org,
"linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org" <linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Daniel Dao <dqminh@cloudflare.com>,
Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
clm@meta.com, regressions@lists.linux.dev,
regressions@leemhuis.info
Subject: Re: Known and unfixed active data loss bug in MM + XFS with large folios since Dec 2021 (any kernel from 6.1 upwards)
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2024 14:29:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZugyzR8Ak6hJNlXF@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240913-ortsausgang-baustart-1dae9a18254d@brauner>
On Fri, Sep 13, 2024 at 02:11:22PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> So this issue it new to me as well. One of the items this cycle is the
> work to enable support for block sizes that are larger than page sizes
> via the large block size (LBS) series that's been sitting in -next for a
> long time. That work specifically targets xfs and builds on top of the
> large folio support.
>
> If the support for large folios is going to be reverted in xfs then I
> see no point to merge the LBS work now. So I'm holding off on sending
> that pull request until a decision is made (for xfs). As far as I
> understand, supporting larger block sizes will not be meaningful without
> large folio support.
This is unwarranted; please send this pull request. We're not going to
rip out all of the infrastructure although we might end up disabling it
by default. There's a bunch of other work queued up behind that, and not
having it in Linus' tree is just going to make everything more painful.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-09-16 13:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 81+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-09-12 21:18 Christian Theune
2024-09-12 21:55 ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-09-12 22:11 ` Christian Theune
2024-09-12 22:12 ` Jens Axboe
2024-09-12 22:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-09-12 22:30 ` Jens Axboe
2024-09-12 22:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-09-13 3:44 ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-09-13 13:23 ` Christian Theune
2024-09-13 12:11 ` Christian Brauner
2024-09-16 13:29 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2024-09-18 9:51 ` Christian Brauner
2024-09-13 15:30 ` Chris Mason
2024-09-13 15:51 ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-09-13 16:33 ` Chris Mason
2024-09-13 18:15 ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-09-13 21:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-09-13 21:30 ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-09-13 16:04 ` David Howells
2024-09-13 16:37 ` Chris Mason
2024-09-16 0:00 ` Dave Chinner
2024-09-16 4:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-09-16 8:47 ` Chris Mason
2024-09-17 9:32 ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-09-17 9:36 ` Chris Mason
2024-09-17 10:11 ` Christian Theune
2024-09-17 11:13 ` Chris Mason
2024-09-17 13:25 ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-09-18 6:37 ` Jens Axboe
2024-09-18 9:28 ` Chris Mason
2024-09-18 12:23 ` Chris Mason
2024-09-18 13:34 ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-09-18 13:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-09-18 14:12 ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-09-18 14:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-09-18 17:12 ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-09-18 16:37 ` Chris Mason
2024-09-19 1:43 ` Dave Chinner
2024-09-19 3:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-09-19 3:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-09-19 3:38 ` Jens Axboe
2024-09-19 4:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-09-19 4:42 ` Jens Axboe
2024-09-19 4:36 ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-09-19 4:46 ` Jens Axboe
2024-09-19 5:20 ` Jens Axboe
2024-09-19 4:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-09-20 13:54 ` Chris Mason
2024-09-24 15:58 ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-09-24 17:16 ` Sam James
2024-09-25 16:06 ` Kairui Song
2024-09-25 16:42 ` Christian Theune
2024-09-27 14:51 ` Sam James
2024-09-27 14:58 ` Jens Axboe
2024-10-01 21:10 ` Kairui Song
2024-09-24 19:17 ` Chris Mason
2024-09-24 19:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-09-19 6:34 ` Christian Theune
2024-09-19 6:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-09-19 10:19 ` Christian Theune
2024-09-30 17:34 ` Christian Theune
2024-09-30 18:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-09-30 19:25 ` Christian Theune
2024-09-30 20:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-09-30 20:56 ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-09-30 22:42 ` Davidlohr Bueso
2024-09-30 23:00 ` Davidlohr Bueso
2024-09-30 23:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-10-01 0:56 ` Chris Mason
2024-10-01 7:54 ` Christian Theune
2024-10-10 6:29 ` Christian Theune
2024-10-11 7:27 ` Christian Theune
2024-10-11 9:08 ` Christian Theune
2024-10-11 13:06 ` Chris Mason
2024-10-11 13:50 ` Christian Theune
2024-10-12 17:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-12-02 10:44 ` Christian Theune
2024-10-01 2:22 ` Dave Chinner
2024-09-16 7:14 ` Christian Theune
2024-09-16 12:16 ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-09-18 8:31 ` Christian Theune
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