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Re: [PATCH v6 4/5] dax: for truncate/hole-punch, do zeroing through the

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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 4/5] dax: for truncate/hole-punch, do zeroing through the driver if possible
From: "Verma, Vishal L" <vishal.l.verma@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 19:49:01 +0000
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On Tue, 2016-05-10 at 12:25 -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Hi Vishal,
> 
> can you also pick up the my patch to add a low-level __dax_zero_range
> that I cced you on?ÂÂThat way we can avoid a nasty merge conflict with
> my xfs/iomap changes.

Good idea - I'll do that for the next posting. I'll wait a day or two
for any additional reviews/acks.

I'm looking to get all this into a branch in the nvdimm tree once Jan
splits up his dax-locking series..

Mostly I guess I'm looking for a yay or nay for the block layer changes
(patch 2). Jens?
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