On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 12:41:16AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

We're going to move forward killing buffer_heads in XFS.  I think ext4
would dramatically benefit from this a well, as would ext2 (although I
think all that DAX work in ext2 is a horrible idea to start with).

It's been on my todo list.  The only reason why I haven't done it yet
is because I knew you were working on a solution, and I didn't want to
do things one way for buffered I/O, and a different way for Direct
I/O, and disentangling the DIO code and the different assumptions of
how different file systems interact with the DIO code is a *mess*.

It may have gotten better more recently, but a few years ago I took a
look at it and backed slowly away.....

						- Ted