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

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Date:   Wed, 27 May 2020 17:06:36 +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:

> > 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/

Thanks!

David