linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 1/5] ext4: fix race with setting free_inode/clusters

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Message-ID: <20180730012827.GJ21725@thunk.org>
Date:   Sun, 29 Jul 2018 21:28:27 -0400
From:   "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To:     Wang Shilong <wangshilong1991@...il.com>
Cc:     Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>,
        Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
        Shuichi Ihara <sihara@....com>, Wang Shilong <wshilong@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] ext4: fix race with setting
 free_inode/clusters_counter

On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 08:38:19AM +0800, Wang Shilong wrote:
> Hi Ted,
> 
> Would you please consider this patchset for new merge windows?
> They are all reviewed by Andreas at least.

The commit descriptions don't explain *why* things are changing, and
in many cases you are doing lots of refactoring that is hard to
validate.  So I've been putting off this patch.  Andreas tried to tell
me more of the context of what is going on, so it's on my list.  But
patches that are easy to review and understang get processed first.

	     	      	 	    - Ted