Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> says:
This series contains the iomap prep work to support zoned XFS.
The biggest changes are:
- an option to reuse the ioend code for direct writes in addition to the
current use for buffered writeback, which allows the file system to
track completions on a per-bio basis instead of the current end_io
callback which operates on the entire I/O.
Note that it might make sense to split the ioend code from
buffered-io.c into its own file with this. Let me know what you think
of that and I can include it in the next version
- change of the writeback_ops so that the submit_bio call can be done by
the file system. Note that btrfs will also need this eventually when
it starts using iomap
- helpers to split ioend to the zone append queue_limits that plug
into the previous item above.
- a new ANON_WRITE flags for writes that don't have a block number
assigned to them at the iomap level, leaving the file system to do
that work in the submission handler. Note that btrfs wants something
similar also for compressed I/O, which should be able to reuse this,
maybe with minor tweaks.
- passing private data to a few more helper
The XFS changes to use this will be posted to the xfs list only to not
spam fsdevel too much.
* patches from https://lore.kernel.org/r/
20250206064035.
2323428-2-hch@lst.de:
iomap: pass private data to iomap_truncate_page
iomap: pass private data to iomap_zero_range
iomap: pass private data to iomap_page_mkwrite
iomap: add a io_private field to struct iomap_ioend
iomap: optionally use ioends for direct I/O
iomap: factor out a iomap_dio_done helper
iomap: move common ioend code to ioend.c
iomap: split bios to zone append limits in the submission handlers
iomap: add a IOMAP_F_ANON_WRITE flag
iomap: simplify io_flags and io_type in struct iomap_ioend
iomap: allow the file system to submit the writeback bios
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250206064035.2323428-2-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>