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

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Message-ID: <8c74f334-3711-ea07-9875-22f379a62bb3@yandex-team.ru>
Date:   Wed, 27 May 2020 18:41:08 +0300
From:   Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru>
To:     David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:     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

On 27/05/2020 18.20, David Howells wrote:
> 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?

This version looks more like RFC, so

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

this definitely will fix my problem with ext4 lazytime:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/158040603451.1879.7954684107752709143.stgit@buzz/

> 
> David
>