linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] vfs, afs, ext4: Make the inode hash table RCU searchable

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Message-ID: <3735168.1590592854@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
Date:   Wed, 27 May 2020 16:20:54 +0100
From:   David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:     Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru>
Cc:     dhowells@...hat.com, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
        Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vfs, afs, ext4: Make the inode hash table RCU searchable

Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru> wrote:

> > Is this something that would be of interest to Ext4?
> 
> For now, I've plugged this issue with try-lock in ext4 lazy time update.
> This solution is much better.

Would I be able to turn that into some sort of review tag?

David