[RFC][PATCH] netfs, afs, ceph: Use folios

David Howells dhowells at redhat.com
Fri Aug 13 01:17:28 PDT 2021


Christoph Hellwig <hch at infradead.org> wrote:

> It actually needs to go away.  There's not real good use for that level
> of API. netfs should just open code the releavant parts of
> generic_perform_write, similar to iomap.

I'm working on doing that in netfs lib, with the intent of sharing it between
at least afs, ceph, cifs and 9p.  It reduces the cost of accessing fscache
for large writes that span multiple pages.

David




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